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"Mr President, I very much welcome what the Minister has said this morning, and hope that much of it will be echoed by the Council, although the evidence so far does not give us great cause for confidence that it will.
Many of us still see question marks hanging over our protection of the social aspect in the face of market dominance. We are invited in this package to consider the impact of the recent European Court of Justice rulings. Well, many of us have indeed considered them and consider them extremely worrying, when we are constantly being asked to justify measures on the basis of their not disturbing markets rather on the basis of their delivering a high quality of services and quality of workers rights etc. This is evidenced in the social package, where we are now looking at recognising the fact that we have poverty among people actually in work, and that we are still looking at a growing gap between rich and poor. While welcoming the sentiments on dealing with poverty expressed in the Commission’s package, what we are really looking for is concrete action.
We obviously welcome the horizontal directive on equalities. That is something we have championed throughout this Parliament. It is important for all sorts of reasons, not least because it now actually offers the possibility of full participation in society.
We also welcome many of the proposals on the Roma. We welcome the Commission’s commitment and want to see all Member States responding positively, rather than entrenching prejudice and bigotry. Training on equal opportunities is an important part of the skills agenda, especially for those delivering policy in the areas concerned.
We welcome the existence, at least, of the proposals on the European Works Councils, although we have a number of criticisms about what is in them. As regards the mobility aspect of the package, we now also need to be looking at the impact of mobility in social terms: what happens to people, in particular the economically inactive who move and find themselves disbarred from Member States’ health-care systems; what happens to people as they age, having moved to other Member States, and what will their future bring?
We also welcome the proposal on ‘New skills for new jobs’, and trust this really will link in with the climate change agenda, which also needs to look at new skills in old jobs, because most of the workforce have now passed the stage of formal education, making lifelong learning crucial. We must ask how we are going to deliver the skills we actually need in order to make our climate change targets practicable."@en1
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