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lpv:document identification number	"en.20040114.1.3-034"2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Gary Titley2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, I also wish to welcome the President-in-Office. It is certainly nice to see the professionals back in charge of the shop. The real challenge for this presidency, of course, is to deliver enlargement, and the difficulties that remain should not be underestimated. The new countries must be pressured by this presidency to continue the reforms necessary for their successful integration into the Union. We must continue our clear commitment to Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey to ensure that the enlargement process proceeds. Enlargement is challenge of the decade. It is not just a question of delivering enlargement, but also of making it work. Enlargement could make or break the European Union. Frankly, without a reform of our decision-making structures, enlargement will break the Union – it is as simple as that. Therefore, we must have a constitutional treaty. I fear that many colleagues here today have underestimated the vested interests there are in some governments not to have an agreement, at least for the time being. How else do you explain voting arrangements that do not come into effect until 2009 causing the collapse of the IGC? It defies belief that was the only reason. The real tragedy of this debacle is that it is distracting us from even more important work. The Constitution is about how we do things, when our attention should be focused on what we do. Key to that is the Lisbon process, which is running out of steam, hamstrung as it is by a surfeit of generalities, a lack of specific targets, and by the Member States' failure to implement what they have agreed to. In particular, this presidency must take forward the report by Wim Kok. We must have more and better jobs; we must make work pay; we must have a more dynamic social model aimed at getting more people into work – particularly those traditionally excluded; we must avoid having a two-tier workforce and we need a more productive workforce. To do this we have to set every government clear targets to be achieved. The new Member States are used to annual scrutiny. We have to extend that discipline to the existing states. Let us do more to put countries on the spot. My question to the President-in-Office is very specific: how do you intend to take forward Wim Kok's very important report? Because, more than anything else, if you deliver on more jobs you will earn the eternal gratitude of our voters."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Labour Party (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the European Economic Area Joint Parliamentary Committee (EEA) (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 vice-chair; PES (2003-05-21--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Lithuania Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-12-12--2004-04-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Slovenia Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3
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