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"Mr President, the opinion of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs starts with a number of reminders: Article 3 of the Treaty says we shall work for the sustainable development of Europe based on balanced economic growth and price stability, a highly competitive social market economy, full employment and social progress; Article 9: the promotion of a high level of employment, guaranteed adequate social protection, fight against social exclusion, high level of education and human health, taking into account the European Union policies; and Article 151: the Union of the Member States shall have as their objective the promotion of employment, improved living and working conditions, proper social protection, and so on.
But you only have to look around the European Union today to see that there is a massive imbalance between the social pillar of EMU and the economic pillar. Therefore in our opinion we make a number of demands. In order to meet the objectives set out in Article 9, we say that economic policy can no longer be considered in isolation from social policy and we therefore need to improve European social governance in ways directly comparable to the establishment of European economic governance.
We call for the establishment of employment and social benchmarks, such as incoming inequality, employment and poverty, in addition to fiscal and macroeconomic benchmarks. We have seen some progress on that front as a result of the social scoreboard produced by Commissioner Andor at the beginning of October, but not enough.
We stress the emergence, existence and aggravation of internal and external imbalances in the field of economic and social policy and the need therefore to identify automatic stabilisers that will deepen the existing multi-tier governance. We call upon the Commission to produce a Green Paper to set out the range of such stabilisers that might be adopted and developed in the framework of multi-tiered governance.
We should not shy away from treaty change, if necessary. If we do have treaty change, one of the important factors is to build in a social clause to make sure that we have a proper balance between economic freedoms and workers’ rights within the framework of the Treaty."@en1
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