Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-11-15-Speech-4-038"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2007-11-15"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Social reality stocktaking (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"es"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20071115.3.4-038"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2007-11-15-Speech-4-0392
lpv:speaker	lp:Alejandro Cercas2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Partido Socialista Obrero Español (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation for relations with Israel (2007-03-14--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the United States (2007-03-14--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 member; PES (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; EMPL (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 substitute; AGRI (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Mrs Lynne, Commissioner, thank you very much for offering us this communication and this document, which are undoubtedly going to enable us to improve our knowledge of changes and trends, and the agenda that we need to have for the future. We should not, however, make a mistake. We have many documents, we have many analyses, we have many debates and we have many words, but here, as for diseases, we need not only a diagnosis but also treatment. It is true, as you said, Commissioner, that we need European treatment, through the Union, its institutions and its mechanisms, in order to respond to the problems of today and tomorrow, taking into account that if we do not do it at Union level it will be impossible to do it solely at the level of the Member States. Some Member States that are making fast progress, such as mine, are beginning to be threatened by policies that are seeking to slow down, or, in other Member States, to establish unfair competition with the supply and social change that is taking place in our countries. Commissioner, please take account of the fact that the feeling is beginning to spread that European social policy, which in the 1960s and 1970s, as a Spanish trade unionist said to me in a letter today, was aimed at harmonising progress, and in the 1980s and 1990s limited itself to ensuring minimum requirements, is now beginning to slide towards a social policy in which there is competition between the Member States to achieve the lowest common denominator. Commissioner, the risks that we face for the future include not only ageing and globalisation, but also the contagious lack of solidarity and aggressive, xenophobic and anti-European nationalism that is threatening both Europe’s current social victories and its future ones."@en1

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