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Industrial restructuring is a long-standing and permanent phenomenon, which results from technical progress and improved productivity. Restructuring often cannot be avoided if competitiveness, and hence long-term employment, is to be maintained. It always has a high social cost, particularly in regions housing traditional industries in which employees who are poorly qualified and not particularly mobile have difficulty in changing occupation. The social consequences of restructuring must therefore be alleviated.
That is why I voted very firmly in favour of the Cottigny report on restructuring and employment. I sincerely hope that its proposals are taken up by the Council and the Commission and that they result in practical measures. The European Union should adapt its responses, enhance the role of both sides of industry and put in place tools designed more successfully to anticipate restructuring.
Increased attention to SMEs, the creation of a globalisation adjustment fund, the right to lifelong learning and so on are all measures that should enable us to show the people that the European Union is aware of their concerns and that it is as anxious as they are to obtain genuine social cohesion."@en1
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