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"Mr President, I would also like to concentrate on the Gutiérrez Prieto report. When our committee decided our position on that, we were very pleased to support the report. It emphasises the social mess that we are in because of the way the crisis has been handled. We have heard about increasing unemployment and increasing poverty. Marian Harkin spoke very movingly on that subject, and it is clear that, at the moment, it looks as if we have no hope in hell of achieving the EU 2020 goals by that date. This does not mean we should walk away from the targets, of course.
We are also very pleased that the demand for an interinstitutional agreement has not been included in this report. That discontent about the lack of democracy, about the real influence of this House – as the people’s representatives – on the Annual Growth Survey and on the country-specific recommendations, is broadly felt here, and in our view a Treaty change is not needed to have this interinstitutional agreement.
Our feeling is that the Commission and Council should be grabbing this with both hands. I would really like to ask their representatives here whether they are going to take action on the issue and start negotiating such an agreement or not? It is also clear that, if we want the EU 2020 process, the Semester, to have democratic legitimacy, we need to involve civil society and social partners much more strongly.
At the European level, we have seen a coalition of civil society organisations working very hard over the last few years to gain a meaningful role, and with some success. But we need to see this embedded structurally into this whole process – at national level too. In the UK, we have seen civil society social partners really squeezed out of the process since the change from the past coordination method. We really need to feel that people are on board with this process to actually have a say and to shape it."@en1
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