Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-10-23-Speech-1-072"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-10-23"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Social policy agenda2
dcterms:Language	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20001023.7.1-072"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-10-23-Speech-1-0732
lpv:speaker	lp:Luciana Sbarbati2
lpv:spokenAs	member_of_the_bureau; ELDR (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 vice-chair; PETI (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 member; BUDG (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; EMPL (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Partito repubblicano italiano (1999-07-20--2003-03-29)3 member; Delegation for relations with Israel (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I feel that the Lisbon Summit has presented us with a picture of a future Europe which cannot, which must not be purely an economic Europe, but which must be a genuine political entity. And in order to be a political entity, Europe must have a cultural and social, as well as economic structure. In my opinion, therefore, the proposal presented by the Commission on the social agenda is extremely positive. However, I do agree with almost all of Mrs Van Lancker’s report – and for this I am grateful to her – for I do not believe that when Mrs Van Lancker makes a specific reference to clear objectives, proposals for specific instruments and, in particular, precise deadlines, that she is reverting to the socialist logic of old, as somebody has suggested today. It is rather that she is simply reverting to a longstanding need, the need for cohesion in a situation which, from this point of view, is becoming increasingly difficult to regulate because it lacks any form of harmonisation. In discussing a Charter of Fundamental Rights and advocating a European Constitution we cannot shy away from certain issues: we have to insist that all the necessary measures must be taken, even if this means producing more accurate legislation. I do not believe that Mrs Van Lancker intends to create laws to regulate absolutely everything; I feel rather that she considers it necessary, when coordinating actions do not produce the desired results, when the citizens encounter inequalities between the States and when there is no social harmonisation, to bring about this harmonisation. The issue of open coordination must therefore be tackled alongside a comprehensive action to develop social legal bases, for without them we will not be able to persuade the States to harmonise a social policy which upholds equality and equal opportunities."@en1

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