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Mr President, I would like to comment first of all on the broad economic policy guidelines that we are looking at. My Group does not believe that economic growth automatically produces significant employment, nor does it automatically produce sustainable development. We feel that this element is too weak in the current proposals.
We recognise that there are choices to be made in how we try to develop our economies and that the pursuit of competition and more liberalisation is a mistaken path if we really want to make full use of the Lisbon Agenda. So we welcome the reintroduction of our amendments on eco-innovation, for example, because we think that is indicative of the choices we have to make if we want to create a sustainably developed economy.
We also have concerns about the research element within this particular report. We do not favour the increase in biotech research if that is going to be looking at embryo stem cell research or GMOs. We equally do not accept the inclusion of nuclear energy as part of the Kyoto strategy. In fact I think people would probably be extremely shocked if we did.
Part of the Lisbon Agenda is also social cohesion, a part that is often forgotten, and thus the importance of the social agenda that we are looking at. We very much welcome the practical report from Mrs Oomen-Ruijten and the recognition of the need to use all the available talents to really tackle discrimination, whether that be in terms of the gender pay gap, discrimination against black and minority ethnic groups, or in terms of disability or age. We support the additional measures advocated in the original report. Services of general interest are also crucial as a means of social cohesion and therefore we welcome the recommendation in this report on the need for a framework directive in this area.
We also welcome the additional moves from the Commission on the social dimension of globalisation, to which we think insufficient attention has been paid. We therefore wish for the European Parliament to be fully involved in future work on that."@en1
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