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This resolution adopts the Commission’s proposal concerning the Council’s decision, which heaps praise on the Lisbon Strategy and asserts that unemployment has gone down in Europe. The Lisbon Strategy, even in its revamped form, will remain a symbol of shallow populism and inefficiency, given that the Member States subject to the Brussels guidelines are having difficulty in toeing the pro-European line and fail on growth, employment and modernising their social security systems.
This reduction in unemployment, according to the Commission’s positive assessment, is a delusion masking the reality of the figures. This is very much a case of a ‘Potemkin Village’, because, in France alone, many poor people and people in insecure employment, not to mention the unemployed on training courses and many members of the active workforce who have been given early retirement, have been skilfully excluded from the statistics.
Lastly, the procedural amendment proposed by the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs, wisely calling for Parliament to be given the necessary time to fulfil its consultative role on these social issues, demonstrates our institution’s powerlessness in the face of pro-European absolutism."@en1
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