Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2011-11-15-Speech-2-022-000"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2011-11-15"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:European platform against poverty and social exclusion (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20111115.5.2-022-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2011-11-15-Speech-2-023-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Julie Girling2
lpv:spoken text	"Madam President, I shall not be voting for this motion and neither will my group. Why? Because the time for naive and hopeless words has passed, and this is the time to take some action. The root cause of poverty is unemployment. If you want to work, it is our job to provide you with the economic conditions for growth: pure and simple. Tinkering around the edges will not help. It will not help to make sweeping statements about Member States’ welfare systems; it will not help to encroach on Member States’ subsidiarity with regard to minimum wage; it will not help to call for an extension of social protection rights to non-EU citizens; and it will not help for the European Commission to take on the role of dishing out country-specific action plans. Since when did micro-management by Brussels ever help anyone or anything? Nobody denies that poverty is a real and pressing problem, but poverty is not to do with human rights – it is to do with lack of opportunity and lack of incentive to work productively. It is time that the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs and this plenary got down to their real work: that is, helping Member States grow their economies and reduce their appalling increasing rates of unemployment, particularly for our young people. This motion not only interferes with matters that should be tackled at national level – and they are being tackled in many Member States – but it puts forward proposals which would actually make nations poorer and less able to deal with the problem. I urge people to think again and vote against."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; ENVI (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 member; Delegation for relations with the countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 substitute; EMPL (2010-02-09--2012-01-18)3 member; PECH (2009-07-14--2012-02-15)3 substitute; PECH (2009-07-21--2012-01-18)3 unknown; Conservative Party (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China (2009-09-16--2012-03-18)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Julie Girling,"1 "on behalf of the ECR Group."1
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