Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-03-01-Speech-3-140"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-03-01"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Union Economy (1999)2
dcterms:Language	"sv"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000301.8.3-140"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-03-01-Speech-3-1412
lpv:speaker	lp:Göran Färm2
lpv:spokenAs	member; BUDG (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Latvia Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3 member; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Socialdemokratiska arbetarepartiet (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; ECON (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Mr Katiforis’s report is exciting. In its original form, it points the way towards a renewed economic policy which aims at something more than merely tightening up and balancing the economy. Now, finally, the EU’s position is, of course, such that we can achieve high growth and seriously take up the fight against unemployment without jeopardising objectives such as price stability and a balanced budget. It is therefore sad that, in committee, the Group of the European People’s Party and European Democrats and the Group of the European Liberal, Democrat and Reform Party should have voted down the proposals which take the fight against unemployment seriously. The debate and vote here in plenary ought to correct this. It is nonetheless gratifying that we should have united behind some of the strategically important proposals, namely that the Union’s economic policy ought to prioritise investments, partly in order to involve all the Union’s citizens in the information society, something which can also be of major significance from an economic point of view. I am also thinking of the importance of strengthening the applicant States’ links with trans-European networks in the shape of both physical forms of transport and IT infrastructure. This is important for growth but also in order to avoid gulfs developing between people, both within the EU and between the EU and the applicant States. The applicant States ought not merely to tag along behind but, instead, share the EU’s ambition of becoming a world leader in the communications field. Society needs, therefore, to take responsibility for the rapid and vigorous expansion of a modern IT infrastructure which also reaches small companies, poor regions and ordinary citizens. We have that opportunity right now. Let us grasp it."@en1

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