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"Mr President, I am pleased that both the President-in-Office and Commissioner Verheugen stressed that the Kok report is not an end-point but a starting point for the mid-term review of Lisbon to be concluded at next year's spring summit. I am glad about that because the early drafts I have seen of the Kok report would be an inappropriate conclusion for a mid-term review as the balance is wrong. I disagree with Mr Evans on this point.
Quite correctly, the report makes much of the need for improved growth and competitiveness, but you have to read well into it before you come across the notion that social policy can be a productive factor. It is a productive factor. We need improved competitiveness to maintain our European social model, but that model is a productive factor in itself for achieving competitiveness.
Rather than talking in grand terms, let me give a specific example. I read recently that in the new Member States, as many as 40% of workers are affected by ill-health or injury related to work. The figure in the former 15 Member States is much lower, at 25%. I think that is in large part due to the comprehensive framework of health and safety laws we have had in place in Europe for over a decade. We need to bear that in mind. That is social policy as a productive factor, contributing to competitiveness, contributing to quality at work, quality jobs, and maintaining people's active involvement in the labour market. Let us maintain the Lisbon balance overall."@en1
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