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dcterms:Date	"2000-11-16"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20001116.5.4-107"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-11-16-Speech-4-1082
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	". This programme to combat social exclusion is one of the priorities of the French Presidency, which has made the social Europe the leitmotif of its proposals. Let me remind you that Lisbon defined a common strategy of social inclusion. I welcome this initiative, which responds to the expectations of our fellow citizens, the citizens of Europe. Indeed, while we welcome the return to growth and the fall in unemployment, we must not close our eyes to the fact that inequalities are still with us, if not getting worse. Social exclusion is a very real phenomenon, as the Eurostat statistics show: some 18% of the population of the European Union lives on less than 60% of the average national income – this is the low-income threshold taken to measure relative poverty – which means that 65 million people live on low incomes. Even though the unemployment rate has fallen, there are still 16 million unemployed in the European Union. Moreover, although unemployment is still the main factor behind poverty and exclusion, job insecurity and low pay are nonetheless obstacles to full integration into society. Too many of our fellow-citizens are left by the wayside. We must therefore adopt proactive measures to provide social protection and access to public services in the field of health, education, housing and so on. I unreservedly support the proposal to implement a second Luxembourg process to deal with social exclusion, containing guidelines and national action programmes. Indeed, we can see all the benefits of this method in the employment field. The Lisbon European Council set the European Union the objective of becoming a knowledge-based, competitive and inclusive society. That can be achieved only at the cost of considerable efforts to guarantee all men and women access to training in the new information and communication technologies and also to the new telecommunications networks. Universal service has a prime role to play in this regard. The next meeting point is Nice where, I hope, the Member States will send out a powerful message indicative of their political resolve to embark on a global strategy to strengthen the European social model by adopting the Social Agenda and the Charter of Fundamental Rights."@en1

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