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"Mr President, following Lisbon and Nice, I had hoped to see a better balance in the Commission's work programme between employment, economic and social policies, but I do not see much evidence of that. We need balanced progress in the internal market, in competition policy and in social policy, but again I do not see much evidence of that in the Commission's work programme. I would like to see, for example, a recognition of the interdependence between these areas of policy. In competition policy and internal market rules we need an amendment to the merger regulation to include considerations related to employment and social rights and the inclusion, for example, of social clauses in the public procurement framework. I would have liked a recognition of these inter-relationships, but I do not see it. I see far faster movement in the economic and internal market sphere than in the social sphere and there are real dangers of a growing imbalance in that respect.
Furthermore I do not see much evidence in the Commission's work programme of the social agenda agreed at Nice last December. We will see further progress in areas of open coordination, in employment – well established now – and the first steps in relation to social protection. I should mention the fundamental problem that key Commission documents are not made available to Parliament and its rapporteurs in good time. We need to have respect for parliamentary procedures in relation to these new forms of open coordination.
Finally, on a specific issue, the Commission's work programme misses the point by a great distance when it promises a Green Paper on a corporate sense of social responsibility in the middle of this year. A Green Paper on such a code is a sick joke to the many thousands of workers who have been affected by restructuring in recent weeks. We need a complete overhaul of the legislation framework in this area and I hope the Commission will move quickly in that respect."@en1
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