Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-03-29-Speech-3-164"

Predicate	Value (sorted: default)
rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-03-29"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:2001 budgetary guidelines2
dcterms:Language	"es"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000329.9.3-164"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-03-29-Speech-3-1652
lpv:speaker	lp:Alejo Vidal-quadras2
lpv:spokenAs	member_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (1999-10-12--2002-03-07)3 unknown; Partido Popular (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 vice-president; Parliament's Bureau (1999-07-20--2002-01-14)3 vice-president; European Parliament (1999-07-20--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegation for relations with the United States (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (2000-03-17--2002-01-14)3 member; BUDG (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I would first like to say that I agree with the political priorities expounded by Mrs Haug. Nevertheless, we are still lacking explicit support for such relevant fields as scientific research, technological innovation and development. Failure to take these into account in the Union’s budget is equivalent to going out on a rainy day without an umbrella. Without a constant and intense effort in these fields there will be no competitiveness and a lack of competitiveness means no new jobs will be created. We have therefore introduced an amendment to cover this. Another amendment that we have suggested, in accordance with what was agreed at the European Council in Lisbon, refers to the fact that employment is one of the Union’s great political priorities for the coming years and that objective is unfailingly expressed, as Mrs Haug correctly points out, through policies which favour small and medium-sized businesses. However, it is not enough simply to give them access to new communication and information technologies. The Internet is a tool, not a magic wand. Without a decisive programme for basic structural reforms, which improve the ability of European business to compete, the digital era will be a time of frustration for Europe, hence our amendment designed to remind us of this fact which is so obvious and yet so worrying. Lastly, with regard to what Mrs Haug describes as the “cultural economy”, we have pointed out that she mentions it amongst the political priorities, and then it fails to appear elsewhere in the text. In order to deal with this methodological inconsistency, we have proposed an amendment which expands on this thought-provoking concept. In any event, the rapporteur has, in our judgement, correctly established the bases which will set the course for Section III of the Union’s budget for 2001 and we are happy to offer her our sincere congratulations on her work."@en1

Named graphs describing this resource:

The resource appears as object in 2 triples

Context graph