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"Mr President, in the context of the European Semester, for the first time, the Commission assessed stability and convergence in the Member States as well as the reform programmes concerned. The macro-economic imbalances of twelve Member States were also analysed for the first time. However, I do not expressly wish to focus on the individual details. I welcome the fact that the Commission has reconsidered its original position and it is now clear that only deficits are to be sanctioned. We do not need a Soviet-style planned economy, where we still punish countries that run surpluses. I do not welcome – and I do not entirely understand the reason for – the Commission’s criticism of tax splitting. The Commission describes tax splitting as inhibiting access to the labour market. In my opinion, however, family tax splitting is an important measure to support families. Particularly in times of crisis, we absolutely need to ensure that establishing a family does not lead to the poverty trap, even if a wage should happen to be temporarily lost."@en1
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