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"Mr President, I, too, want to thank Mrs Weiler for a good report. The Commission reports on which this debate is based presuppose that there are to be no major changes this year, because a large-scale evaluation of the first five-year period is to be carried out in the course of next year. We do not, therefore, wish to start making changes at the present stage. Naturally, this state of affairs has also had a marked influence upon the current report, which concerns what we have discussed in previous years.
I think that the rapporteur has added some important aspects: quality at work, training, professional education, life long learning, equality etc. The Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs submitted a number of proposals for the report, of which a number were adopted and introduced into the report. These amendments worry me because some of them place such heavy emphasis upon price stability policy, budget restriction policy and such like. They worry me because we are heading for an economy which is no longer as strong. The Luxembourg procedure has been very focused upon improving the supply of labour, but this presupposes that there are job opportunities and that current economic policy is creating job opportunities and countering the trend towards economic recession. I therefore believe that, in the current situation, the amendments in question militate against a European employment strategy.
I should also like to say a few words about the future. A number of evaluations are now under way. I have been in contact with people working on a number of the ongoing research projects, and I believe that one of the things that will be emphasised is the fact that the Member States are failing to implement the policy properly. There is relatively broad agreement between those pursuing labour market policy in the Member States but, in spite of that, no such policy is being implemented in the Member States themselves.
The labour market administrations really do not have much to do with the procedure itself. They are pursuing their own policy. The parliaments have no influence at all, but it is nonetheless they who must fund the national efforts we are demanding. It is therefore incredibly important that more attention be paid to the parliaments in particular, but also to the entire political process in the Member States, if the result is to be effective. I believe that this will be the major task in the forthcoming evaluation. It is not enough simply to emphasise indicators and such like. The bodies that supply the finance and then administer the measures must also play an active role in the process."@en1
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