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dcterms:Date	"2000-10-25"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20001025.6.3-116"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-10-25-Speech-3-1172
lpv:speaker	lp:Gérard Caudron2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation to the EU-Poland Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Parti socialiste (1999-07-20--2002-07-09)3 member; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Cyprus Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-10-08--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 member_of_the_bureau; PES (1999-07-20--2002-01-16)3 substitute; Temporary committee on the Echelon interception system (2000-07-06--2001-09-05)3
lpv:translated text	". I want to welcome the work done on the social agenda by the French Presidency and by Martine Aubry, in terms of both form and content, and I therefore offer warm congratulations to Mrs Van Lancker. This agenda, which goes back to an initiative by the French Presidency, is a genuine programme of work for the next five years. It is in keeping with the decisions of the Lisbon European Council, whose main conclusions relate to establishing a more competitive knowledge-based economy and achieving full employment. It was drawn up in consultation with the European institutions and the NGOs, which were kept fully involved. The Van Lancker report takes account of some of the proposals made by civil society and experts at the joint conference on the subject between the European Commission and the European Parliament on 21 and 22 September 2000. So this agenda sends out a strong political message to European citizens, who all too often perceive Europe as merely the creation of a large market. It highlights the existence and reality of the European social model, but also the need to bring it up to date. We do not have the right to disappoint our citizens. The social agenda must therefore be very ambitious in order to confirm that social, economic and employment policies are closely interlinked and interacting, and that they must have equal status in the Community policy triangle, with the aim of improving the social quality of life for all. Indeed, social policy must be a policy in its own right, with its own objectives. It cannot be seen solely as an adjunct of economic and employment policy or as a by-product of creating a large single market, and even less as mere “dross”. In the five years to come, we will have to create quality jobs, anticipate and manage the adjustments to the new social environment, draw on the opportunities offered by a knowledge-based economy, modernise and improve social protection, promote social inclusion, encourage gender equality, reinforce fundamental rights and combat discrimination. I welcome the adoption at Nice of this social agenda, which, together with the Charter of Fundamental Rights, shows that we have reached a turning point in European integration, which, at present, seeks to strengthen the social and civil fabric of the Union."@en1

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