Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-07-03-Speech-1-087"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-07-03"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:European Council/Portuguese presidency2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000703.6.1-087"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-07-03-Speech-1-0882
lpv:speaker	lp:Miet Smet2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Conference of Delegation Chairs (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 chair; Delegation for relations with South Africa (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Christelijke Volkspartij (1999-07-20--2001-09-30)3 member_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (1999-10-12--2002-03-07)3 member; EMPL (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, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, Lisbon aroused enormous expectations on the social plane. You should have heard the discussions we had in the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs and at the meetings with the trade unions in the interunion association. Every paragraph was analysed and Lisbon was expected to open a new chapter in social history. When I consider Feira, I see that of the twenty five and a half pages of the presidency conclusions a mere half a page is devoted to social protection and social inclusion. I would go so far as to say that this would not be particularly untoward were it not for the fact that even the half-page fails to add anything new. The same applies to employment policy and the European social agenda for that matter. On the one hand, two priorities that were already established in Lisbon are repeated, i.e. pensions and poverty, whilst on the other hand, four objectives set in Lisbon are picked up on again, i.e. the committee for social protection, the open coordination method, the programme for social inclusion, the participation of the social partners and the social responsibility of the business community. The paragraphs that deal with this are actually nothing more than a reprint of the Lisbon paragraphs. Nothing new has been added. If Feira is to have any lasting significance at all, from the social viewpoint as much as anything, then this will be down to the agreement on taxation of income from savings, all assuming this eventually leads to a directive. Only then will the Helsinki principle not only seem self-evident, it will actually be enforceable, i.e. all citizens residing in a Member State of the European Union will be obliged to pay the tax due on all their income from savings. In this way, funds will also be released for social policy and social security will not have to find the money to cover a lack of income owing to fraud."@en1

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