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"Mr President, Commissioners, I could not agree more with a lot of points in the country-specific recommendations. It is an excellent idea to rap the Netherlands on the knuckles for its failure to help women, the disabled, immigrants and the elderly into work, but that message is not loud enough because the semester does not have an audience. It seldom involves NGOs, social partners, or even national parliaments. Therefore, it does not get talked about so much in the press and voters do not take much notice of what the Commission has said when they go to the polls.
I challenge the Commissioners to carry out a survey among national parliamentarians and to ask them how many of the five 2020 targets they can name. I am prepared to stake a big box of Belgian chocolates that 90% would not be able to name even one. We need to raise the democratic standard of the semester so that Member States define their policies much more in line with the semester, and I am not just talking about goals
sanctions, but about all the other targets too.
Fortunately, this is an annual process and next year, we will have the opportunity to go about it better."@en1
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