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This report represents a major step forward on the road to building a social and employment Europe. It draws on the Lisbon Summit conclusions, with a view to achieving an agreement at Nice on establishing a European Social Agenda, as a foundation of European social policy for the next five years (2000-2005).
It offers a global and coherent vision of what a genuine social policy could look like, by linking economic, social and employment aspects. It uses all the instruments that now exist at European Union level – the Social Charter, the employment chapter, the legal base of Article 13 – to combat all forms of discrimination, etc.
Our rapporteur endorses the European Commission's proposals, while supplementing them with a call for stronger European social legislation. He calls for the role of the social partners concerned, and dialogue with them, to be reinforced in the framing of legislation. However, in the event of dispute, our committee urges the executive Commission to make use of its right of initiative and to propose adequate legislation. It is important to achieve a more social Europe, therefore to have more European social legislation.
Furthermore, the rapporteur asks us to support the Member States in their endeavours to establish a minimum wage and the right to a minimum pension so that every individual can live in dignity.
I can only urge you to support this report, which, like the Charter of Fundamental Rights, embodies the values we share and that ensure that our Union is not just reduced to a market."@en1
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