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"Mr President, I wish, first of all, to congratulate the rapporteur, Mrs Jensen, on the timeliness and the quality of her rapport. One of the Union’s objectives is to promote a high level of employment. Therefore, within the framework of the Luxembourg process, the Member States have been cooperating in the field of employment policy, and are responsible for selecting specific measures for its implementation. In fact, it could not be otherwise. More recently, the Lisbon European Council set the Union the strategic objective of becoming the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world, capable of sustainable economic growth generating more and better jobs and greater social cohesion.
This report seeks to make a contribution towards meeting this new challenge set in Lisbon, covering equal opportunities for men and women in the field of employment, an important pillar in the European Employment Strategy. The report aims to foster cooperation between Member States in analysis, research and monitoring of labour market policy, identifying best practices and promoting exchanges and transfers of information and experience. All of this will be flanked by an active information policy, so that Europe’s citizens can easily see what the strategic objectives in the field of employment are. We must ensure that the social partners and relevant local and regional authorities are involved in this effort, which must be a communal effort. Furthermore, it is equally crucial that a study should be made of infrastructures that help men and women to gain employment and to remain employed, such as crèche places and home help, a point that is made clear in the opinion of the Committee on Women’s Rights and Equal Opportunities.
The European Parliament is already a key player within the consultation process in defining the annual employment guidelines and must now also participate in a quantitative and qualitative evaluation of the effects of the European Employment Strategy in general. I wish to say a final word about the allocation of resources for employment incentive measures. The use of public funds must be dealt with in a balanced and extremely rigorous way. An increased budgetary appropriation in this domain would therefore appear to be something that is essential and to be welcomed. It must also be emphasised that the allocation of resources must meet real, specific needs and take account of the implementation of the budget for each heading."@en1
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