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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Mr Ribeiro e Castro’s very useful report mentions, in particular, the importance of transparency and the importance of reliable statistics on jobs. It is true that in my country, France, by massaging the figures and by introducing costly job-creation schemes in the public sector which are no real use at all, the government has been able to announce what it claims is a spectacular fall in unemployment. In reality, unemployment remains stable, and it may even be increasing.
Since the beginning of the year, planned job cuts have been followed by more planned job cuts, at Marks and Spencer, who are relocating, and at Danone, who are planning even further cuts. We are quick to condemn companies who make staff redundant while they themselves are making a profit, but governments must also bear their share of the responsibility, because the original European plan for free circulation and competition between countries with comparable living standards and social protection schemes has been replaced by the indiscriminate opening up of the market to capital and to products manufactured outside Europe in conditions approaching slavery.
For those companies who are subject to laws imposed by parliaments and states, the employment market is not only European, but world-wide.
For workers, of course, it is another matter, and I note that, quite rightly, Recital C in Mr Ribeiro e Castro’s report says that ‘a high level of mobility on the labour market is not an end in itself’. Two hundred thousand French people, worn down by the weight of taxation and the endless bureaucracy in their own country, did not wait for EURES, but simply left the country, in order, finally to get a job and a better standard of living, at least that is what they were hoping for, in the United Kingdom. So, while it is certainly useful to have a network which enables those who wish to find a job in another country within the European Union, our first priority must continue to be to make it possible for businesses to create jobs for their own people in their own countries."@en1
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