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"Mr Verheugen, it is important today, when we want to evaluate the progress of the Lisbon Strategy in mid-term, that we do not look for ready formulas, but that, above all, we identify possible failures.
First and foremost, cooperation between institutions has failed. The European Council determined the objectives, whose fulfilment it had only to coordinate and facilitate, because in the majority of cases these objectives are subject to the national states within the framework of subsidiarity.
I therefore call upon the national states and, the citizens of these states directly, to assume an increased responsibility in adopting the ideas of the Lisbon Strategy. The European Union would have to provide continuous monitoring and more consistently ensure the role of a flexible and effective centre, as it has, for example, in the verification and fulfilment of the Maastricht criteria. Individual Member States have not undergone the social reforms required to resolve the issue of social inclusion.
The issue of securing greater job opportunities: the fulfilment of this objective requires an increased mobility of the work force. But here we lag behind in the recognition of qualifications and skills, and particularly in the streamlining of this procedure. The movement of the work force appears to be in an East-West direction, mainly the highly sophisticated work force, which intensifies the differences in the less developed regions even more.
The ageing of the population: the national states have failed to pay attention to this phenomenon and, through their social reforms, have not managed to ensure the social inclusion of these citizens, that is, an entire generation. The main problem here is the qualitative replacement of this economically serious loss."@en1
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