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lpv:speaker	lp:Bartho Pronk2
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lpv:translated text	". Madam President I would like to congratulate the rapporteurs warmly on their report, both in general terms and in specific terms because I believe that they have managed to address the points which we have raised in our opinion, albeit not always literally, within the confines of this reasonably concise report, which I hope will be adopted in this meeting by a large majority. It is very important to mention the social market economy, as already indicated by Mr von Wogau. It provides a kind of framework for internal policy which we need and renders a whole raft of discussions redundant. I believe that this results in satisfaction all round. The second major point is the Union’s legal personality. It has been formulated here as if it were only related to foreign policy but it also has enormous significance for internal policy. Indeed, it then becomes possible to ratify a number of Treaties, such as ILO Treaties and some UN Treaties in the social field, which will add legal clarity to this type of issue. There are nonetheless two points that are lacking. One of them is the issue of Article 137(6) which, in my opinion, should be repealed. There are also a number of amendments on the table which I hope will yet be added. I would like to finish off with a remark on the issue of the tax policy. The report, in fact, mentions very little about this. The tax policy, which also includes social security policy, is nonetheless of great importance, and not only to the Member States. The Commission too has given the matter rather a lot of attention and has devoted a great deal of thought to it. It is rather a pity, in my opinion, that we talk about it so little. Maybe we will do so in future. The policy is implicitly included in the report but I still think that, in a sense, not dealing with it now is a missed opportunity. That does not, however, detract from the deep appreciation which we have for this report."@en1

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