Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-11-15-Speech-3-258"

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dcterms:Date	"2000-11-15"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Combating social exclusion (continuation)2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20001115.11.3-258"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-11-15-Speech-3-2592
lpv:speaker	lp:Jean Lambert2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, I wish to congratulate the rapporteur for her great commitment in dealing with this report on a programme of Community action for combating social exclusion in which, as many have said, poverty can be an important factor. We are told that finding paid work is the best way of preventing social exclusion but I would agree with those who have said that we would have to take account of the fact that gainful employment alone is no guarantee of social participation. There are many elderly people who would agree with that, as would those who had worked for hours for low wages which do not provide a decent living – farm labourers, for example. It is a pity that poverty is proving such a controversial addition to the title of this programme, for the reason that it is not mentioned in the Treaties. It would be interesting to hear from the Council, at some point, whether they are proposing to rectify this omission at the Nice Summit. Combating poverty proves controversial because it raises the issue of social protection as a productive factor and the issue of redistribution – deeply unfashionable concepts with some Member States. It would be useful to use some of the increased sum which is requested in this report to fund comparative studies to demonstrate how such developments might be managed. I am sure that many of the NGOs and local and regional authorities – which Mrs Figueiredo proposes to include in the programme and its evaluation – would be happy to share their considerable expertise. If we are going to avoid social exclusion we have to ensure that our macroeconomic policies do not act in a way which increases social exclusion. It would be totally counterproductive to have policies which undermine local economic development, make employment less secure but more demanding and then have to mop up the casualties through programmes which try to combat poverty and social exclusion."@en1
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lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Lambert (Verts/ALE )."1

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