Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-03-12-Speech-1-085"
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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, if, failing to put social services on a sounder foundation, we make them more and more subject to the rules of competition, we will certainly end up with sand getting into the European works.
We may well, in 2006, have enjoyed good economic growth, with more jobs being created, but there was a further increase in poverty, and so it is only good that enterprises, too, should discharge their social responsibilities and join in providing social services, or that the Member States should involve the social partners more in working out how these should be structured.
Good social services must be one way whereby poverty in Europe may be fought against. There is no comparison between social services and a car repair shop; they are not the same thing. The fact that social services need to be viable and affordable calls for a European legal framework, a sector-specific directive, and not only official solidarity on the part of the Member States, but also, on the part of the Members of this House, for a great awareness of responsibility rather than platitudinous speeches."@en1
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