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"Mr President, Commissioner, President-in-Office of the Council, ‘people are those who determine the value of things’: so said the ancient Greeks. Thus if people take responsibility for implementing this package presented to us today, if they can harmonise the old measures and proposals with the new, then these people will in fact not be used as resources, but will be active agents as employers, employees, the unemployed, those engaged in small and large businesses, men and women, the young and the elderly. There will be no discrimination in the EU over democracy and subsidiarity, no jingoistic verbiage about who is in power, or about right- or left-wing affiliations, as has been heard here. Next to me is my colleague Mr Őry, who tells me that in his country the socialist government is fighting against social benefits.
We cannot therefore blame the global crisis; we must see things positively. We must face our own, demographic crisis, in the best possible way. Let us remember the old commitments, the Barcelona decisions on the harmonisation of family and professional life, the European Alliance for Families, the European Youth Pact, the common immigration policy and the enhancement of mobility in education and training for job mobility. There must be respect for the diversity, traditions and language of migrant employees. Social discrimination has to be opposed, and the rights of the weak and disadvantaged, and of children, have to be upheld as we in the European Union have championed them. Poverty must be fought, so we shall devote the year 2010 to the struggle. We must strengthen the social and territorial cohesion of our regions through dialogue, goodwill and transparency in the use of financial mechanisms."@en1
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"Marie Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou (PPE-DE )."1
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