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"Mr President, Commissioner, I am speaking on behalf of the Italian radicals. Despite Mrs Jensen's fine work, I feel that this report is not of great significance. I know that there is effectively a need to do what the Commission, through its proposal, and the Treaties themselves call for, namely to combine best practices with all speed, to promote innovative processes and approaches and to assess the results.
I do not feel, however, that, in order to do this, there is still a need in the Europe of today to invest EUR 55 million over a small number of years in order to produce more detailed analyses, to attempt to find links between the experiences of the different countries and to promote cooperation – although it is not clear what this means in terms of employment – between the individual countries.
Do we really believe that, in order to carry out benchmarking, today, we need to perform once again yet more studies, to sprinkle euro dust on a thousand small more or less nepotistic channels – some to the trade unions, some to the different business organisations, some to the non-governmental organisations – to finance new studies which will end up, covered in dust, taking up space on the shelves of libraries? Mr President, I really do not think we need this. There may be a need to coordinate the recording of statistics or to consolidate and update the Eurostat comparison methods – I can see that – but I do not feel that we need to be spending money on further studies and analyses, on information exchange, on pilot projects which, when all is said and done, artificially create jobs subsidised by European, State or local public finances and will continue to do so in the future, but which will serve no practical purpose. We waste time, we confuse the European unemployed, but we do not carry out those reforms which are truly necessary and with which we are all familiar.
A few minutes ago, in this Chamber, we were talking about groups of people who are disadvantaged in terms of employment. In my country, Italy, thanks to a few reforms – extremely minor reforms opposed by the trade unions – liberalising the labour market, we created hundreds of thousands of new jobs last year, mainly in the disadvantaged areas of the South, for women and young people, but we did this through structural measures, which is what is needed, and not, I regret to say, thanks to new, enormously expensive studies."@en1
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