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". – The primary purpose of the report is to support a programme of Community action to encourage cooperation between Member States of the EU to combat social exclusion. I believe that the establishment of such a programme of community action is both wise and can be very helpful. We do not want to build a two-tier Europe, a Europe of the haves and have-nots. We do not want to accentuate the gap between the rich and poor.
The fact of the matter is that long-term unemployment and youth unemployment are quite concentrated in particular areas within the European Union. They are concentrated in specific black spots within many rural and urban parts of the European Union. Devising initiatives to defeat the problems of social exclusion and to give hope and opportunities to the disadvantaged in our society must be a central core policy of all governments within the EU at this time.
The principles underpinning this programme are to create an open method of coordination between Member States to help eradicate poverty and social exclusion. This will be achieved by setting specific objectives to be integrated into national action plans and implementing policies to promote equal opportunities. I believe that the rapporteur is right when he calls for greater participation of public authorities, social partners and civil society in measures to defeat poverty and social exclusion at this time.
As a result of the Amsterdam Treaty, all governments within the EU must send new action plans on employment to the European Commission for its evaluation and consideration. The European Commission must evaluate all these plans to see how successful the governments of the EU are in defeating social exclusion. We must learn from each other on this specific matter. Otherwise the gap between rich and poor will widen within the EU.
In this context, I welcome the key provisions of the Social Policy Agenda Programme 2000-2005 as recently published by the European Commission. This will give an increased role to EU social partners in terms of the drafting of different EU directives and regulations. Employer relations will be improved. There will be continued national and European support for local job creation programmes. There will also be an improved coordination of policy programmes in the area of the information society, modern telecommunication services and Internet related activities.
Ireland has quite an advanced system of social and employment rights and many EU directives are being drafted, particularly on the Irish model in the field of social partnership and employee/employer relations."@en1
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