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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"1999-11-04"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Employment2
dcterms:Language	"da"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.19991104.2.4-020"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:1999-11-04-Speech-4-0212
lpv:speaker	lp:Anne E. Jensen2
lpv:spokenAs	member; BUDG (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; ELDR (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Lithuania Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3 substitute; EMPL (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Venstre (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, employment policy is a national concern, and it shall remain so. We in the Group of the European Liberal, Democrat and Reform Party find therefore, that, with the employment package, a good solution has been found to the problem of how we combine the principle of subsidiarity with a desire to ensure that employment policy is properly coordinated. The Member States’ reports on how they are complying with the guidelines do not simply explain how the various countries are managing individually and in relation to the others but are also a source of mutual inspiration through which countries can learn about each other’s successes. However, precisely how employment policy is put into practice is entirely a matter for the individual Member States. A good deal of policymaking in the areas of employment and the labour market belongs at local level. What is more, success in employment policy is crucial to sound development in the public finances, and it is reasonable to see the employment package and macroeconomic cooperation in an EU context. The Group of the European Liberal, Democrat and Reform Party is not, however, in favour of the employment guidelines’ containing demands that the various countries organise their employment initiatives in accordance with a specific template and in terms of heavy-handed numerical objectives. The individual countries themselves should decide upon the priorities for their employment policies and, in this context, we in the Group of the Liberal, Democrat and Reform Party feel free to take pleasure in the fact that a liberal employment policy which is particularly concerned with securing the correct incentives in taxation and social policy has been proceeded with in most Member States in recent years. In the EU countries, cooperation between parties in the labour market – in other words, the social dialogue – follows very different models characterised by different traditions and cultures. This process is to be respected. And it must also be ensured that the dialogue between governments and the social partners in the labour market does not overshadow the democratic process in the national parliaments and the EU Parliament. I want finally to say that, in its report on employment, the Commission has made recommendations to the individual countries. That is not unproblematic, and it is very important that the Commission should openly describe the assumptions on which it is making its recommendations."@en1

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