Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-02-14-Speech-1-054"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-02-14"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Sustainable urban development – rural development – EQUAL initiative2
dcterms:Language	"de"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000214.4.1-054"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-02-14-Speech-1-0552
lpv:speaker	lp:Ilka Schröder2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; ECON (1999-07-22--2001-09-27)3 member; G/EFA (1999-07-20--2001-09-27)3 member; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Bündnis 90/die Grünen (1999-07-20--2000-08-31)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Palestinian Legislative Council (1999-09-28--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Mrs Stenzel, ladies and gentlemen, before addressing the EQUAL report itself, I should like to make a point of principle in connection with the employment guidelines on which the report is based. The basic objectives of an EU-wide employment policy are laid down in the guidelines and include employability, entrepreneurship and adaptability. These objectives are obviously intended to make employees as useful and usable as possible to the economy. However, the aim of an approach which really sought to reduce discrimination effectively and in the long term would have to be people’s self-determination. Only then does it stop being a question of economic usability and start being about people having equal rights to shape their own lives. Mrs Stenzel’s report has, however, turned out very well, at least where the prescribed guidelines are concerned. All asylum seekers and refugees are to be included explicitly in the programmes, although this should be self-evident. Nevertheless the Conservatives voted against this in the committee. I would ask them the following questions: does your policy seek to marginalise people? What is the idea behind preventing people from working when they wish to do so? Does this not stand in stark contradiction to the guideline on employability? It is also worth mentioning that this is a mainstreaming programme, because there remains a shortcoming in the report. Particular emphasis is given to the point that women’s opportunities on the labour market ought to be improved and that to achieve this more crèches should be built. Anyone who lets men happily climb the career ladder and worries only about childcare places without fighting against the way in which the work of reproduction is shared out unevenly has not – and unfortunately that includes women – understood the concept of mainstreaming!"@en1

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