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"Madam President, I, too, welcome Ms Bastos’s report, which addresses some key issues in the European labour market, such as the difficulty recent graduates face in finding employment, the need to reduce red tape for SMEs and the need to encourage digital literacy amongst all age brackets.
We need to encourage reform in Europe’s labour markets, but the best way to achieve this is through encouraging flexibility and creating the right conditions for businesses to grow. In terms of education, we need to ensure that alternatives to traditional teaching are available, such as apprenticeships and vocational training. Most importantly, education needs to be tailored to the needs of the labour market and this can only be achieved at a national level.
This is why I especially welcome the mention of the University-Business Dialogue, which has the potential to be a very useful tool in harnessing the particular needs of business with the teaching of higher education and making sure that we plug the skills gap and deliver prospects of employment and real jobs for graduates.
In order to encourage these reforms, we need to ensure that there are provisions in place to allow simple, effective mobility for professionals and graduates. In doing so, we will be providing opportunities for engineers, teachers, doctors and others to move to another country and practise their profession and encourage cross-border trade.
Nonetheless, I do find some aspects of this report particularly concerning and, whilst the goal of supplying every EU citizen with employment is very noble, it is simply unrealistic to ask Member States to meet arbitrary employment targets. Moreover, asking Member States to review the critical austerity measures they have been forced to take as part of their financial crisis could be seen as hypocritical given the fact that the EU itself consistently asks for increased budgets year on year.
The report talks about better working conditions for employees and touches on the social security systems in Member States. I do not believe that this will do anything to increase job creation; it would do quite the opposite. More rights for workers, especially in a society which already has the best workers’ rights in the world, will mean jobs are lost, as employers will find recruitment more and more expensive and burdensome.
To summarise, the focus on job creation, the promotion of inclusive labour markets, the need for more mobility, innovation and research, are all necessary proposals, but let us not eliminate the real possibility of job creation by adding excessive burdens."@en1
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