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"Mr President, I should like to congratulate Mrs Figueiredo most warmly on her good work in preparing this report. I am also very glad that the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs has put forward these amendments. What the Commission has tried to do in bridging the opposition between ourselves as Parliament and the Council is also gratifying. But I really must say that the Council has taken precious little notice of us. Only a few formal matters have been adopted. The Social Council and the Swedish Presidency, the Swedish socialist presidency I would almost say, are not aware that there is also such a thing as codecision, they what to keep control of everything themselves. They think: there is open coordination and you as a Parliament must simply pay for our stunts from the Community budget. That is, I believe, unacceptable. That will undoubtedly lead, Madam Commissioner, not only in this case, but also in a number of others to great problems with the Council if the Council does not manage to clarify its position somewhat. We have had one discussion with the Council in which obviously the way was pointed to compromises between this Parliament and the Council, Mrs Figueiredo did that splendidly, but the Council did not listen at all and simply made a kind of blueprint, a kind of stamp of what it previously intended and that is a kind of circuit for civil servants, by civil servants and for civil servants, so to speak. Our amendments are an attempt to change that just a little. I believe that we must adhere to them, since only then can the fight against poverty and the combating of social exclusion be tackled in a truly European way, namely if everyone has a hand in it, and not just a bunch of highly-paid civil servants gathering cosily together in Brussels."@en1
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