Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-09-02-Speech-2-023"

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dcterms:Date	"2008-09-02"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Social package (First part) (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20080902.4.2-023"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2008-09-02-Speech-2-0252
lpv:speaker	lp:Carl Lang2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Delegation for relations with Switzerland, Iceland and Norway and to the European Economic Area (EEA) Joint Parliamentary Committee (2007-03-15--2009-07-13)3 substitute; PECH (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 member; NA (2007-11-14--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Front national (2004-07-20--2009-03-18)3 member; Delegation for relations with Iran (2007-03-15--2009-07-13)3 member; EMPL (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Minister, ladies and gentlemen, it is normal in this House for us to rabbit on about social policy. Unfortunately the European social model is now no more than a myth, because the social reality in our country of France, and my own region in particular, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, is that we have a state of social decline, despair, social precarity and working conditions, mass unemployment and – something else that is altogether alarming and huge – a falling birth rate. Our thinking is still based on the social model of the 1960s, that is to say a model that assumes full employment and a large workforce. But for the last thirty years we have had mass unemployment and a sharply declining birth rate, which has taken us from baby boom to old folks boom and plunged the funding of our pensions into crisis. We must stop thinking that we have to defend the European social model at all costs and get ready instead to reorganise it. Our economic and historical analysis suggests that this should be done in two ways: first, we need a family policy that will bring the birth rate back up, otherwise we shall not be able to fund our pension schemes in the decades ahead and, secondly, we need a policy to re-energise the single market and get people back to work. In order to re-energise the EU single market we must reindustrialise and, unfortunately, if we persist with our almost religious faith in free trade and uncontrolled liberalism, we shall be unable to do what we must do to make our businesses competitive on our own home market. For these reasons our future efforts and our goal of improving social conditions must be rooted in this idea of national and Community preference and national and Community protection."@en1
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