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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"1999-11-04"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Employment (continued)2
dcterms:Language	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.19991104.4.4-049"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:1999-11-04-Speech-4-0502
lpv:speaker	lp:Massimo Cacciari2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation to the EU-Slovenia Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-09-29--2000-05-26)3 unknown; I Democratici (1999-07-20--2000-05-26)3 member; ELDR (1999-07-20--2000-05-26)3 member; EMPL (1999-07-21--2000-05-26)3 substitute; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (1999-07-21--2000-05-26)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the Commission proposal on guidelines for employment policies in 2000 does not really add anything new as compared with previous documents. Nevertheless, it does contain some really crucial points, in particular on information systems and the policies facilitating the transfer of these systems to labour. It is also right to emphasise, as do Amendments 2 and 3 to Guidelines 1 and 2, that long-term unemployment cannot be fought effectively with State subsidies. I would also like to emphasise three limits which we still have to resolve concerning employment policies that the Commission proposal does not adequately address. First of all, there is still not enough attention being given to small and medium-sized industry, which has other problems apart from an excessive tax burden, which is typical of large industry too. Moreover, the document does not even mention the role of an active credit policy intended to support firms – the European credit system is still light-years away from the American system in this regard – and I think that the endeavours of the European Union and the Member States to redirect it have, until now, been very weak. Finally, the main shortcoming of these documents concerns the definition of the role of the regions and local authorities in an active labour policy. If we continue to think in terms of macroeconomic planning and we do not start instead with conciliation at local level and between administrators, trade unions and entrepreneurs in establishing concrete development plans based on actual resources, then we will never address the root of the employment problem. To this end, Amendment No 15 to Guideline 12 is important, but still not sufficient."@en1

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