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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I do not intend my speech to be the usual eurosceptic exercise in rhetoric but a call for the EU to start to look at the contents more than the packaging and abandon propaganda in favour of hard facts.
Now that the Lisbon Strategy has failed, the EU has come up with a new slogan ‘EU 2020’, but it has not actually come up with any innovative response to employment problems. The statistics bear this out: the unemployment rate in Europe stands at 9.6%, the youth unemployment rate at 20.2%. In Italy, the third net contributor to the EU budget, the situation for young people is even more dramatic, with 25.9% of young people jobless.
I would prefer a Europe where resources are not wasted in promotional campaigns, but there are efficient investments so that the training available prepares professionals for the internal market sector where there are proper job opportunities.
I would like to conclude by emphasising the importance of vocational training, a symbol of excellence in our nations. The craft sector offers employment potential and a unique wealth of knowledge that must be used to sustain the competitiveness of the European system."@en1
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