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"Mr President, this is never the most gratifying moment to make speeches of this kind. I am delighted with the Commissioner’s response. I think we will find that it contains all kinds of points worth acting on – particularly if we give it another good read through – in order to reach the goals we are seeking to achieve through these questions, and find the necessary solutions. Whenever restructuring takes place there is a debate as to whether our institutions are sufficiently well-designed to cope with such eventualities. That is quite logical. Indeed the Treaty on the European Union, specifically Article 136, bestows this task on the European Union. Needless to say, we must tread a fine line, i.e. the companies concerned must be given as much leeway as possible to make their own policy decisions, and so promote commercial growth of their operations, which will help to combat long-term and structural unemployment in Europe. On the other hand, we have a moral duty to engage in consultation. Volkswagen in Germany is a good case in point. If these consultation obligations are properly observed, then it is far easier to resolve a particular structural problem than were this not to be the case. If you compare the restructuring of Volkswagen with restructuring operations now taking place in other European countries, which do not have such a good record when it comes to observing consultation obligations, then the differences are plain for all to see. That is why it is so very important for these consultation obligations to be included in the agenda as soon as possible, and for the matter to be resolved, preferably within the term of the Swedish Presidency. That is what we aim to achieve with these questions.
Mr Rocard was right in saying that the resolution was submitted on behalf of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs. Having said that, we still need a number of amendments, precisely in order to underline the point that companies must be given as much leeway as possible to make their own policy decisions. Of course, that is what the resolution implies, but the point is not made quite as clearly as we would wish. So we will go along with the resolution, but only if it includes the amendments we have yet to put forward. Obviously we still have up to Thursday to discuss this."@en1
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