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dcterms:Date	"2001-10-23"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Employment guidelines for 2002/Joint employment report 20012
dcterms:Language	"da"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20011023.4.2-059"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-10-23-Speech-2-0602
lpv:speaker	lp:Ole Krarup2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Malta Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member_of_the_bureau; EDD (1999-07-20--2001-12-10)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Slovenia Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-09-28--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Folkebevægelsen mod EU (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with South-east Europe (1999-09-28--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I do not wish to make any profession of political faith in the many detailed proposals to be found in the report and in the Commission’s proposal for a Council decision. By far the majority of these are to be welcomed and are politically correct, and many are in response to urgent needs, especially the conclusions of the Committee on Women’s Rights and Equal Opportunities, which Mrs Theorin has reported on. However, I have some general remarks on employment policy and the EU’s labour market policy which have, of course, been an overriding theme of a number of reports and proposals here this afternoon. First of all, I have a remark to make about the reality as it is perceived. There is, of course, a very big gap between the reports of various kinds and the social reality. Armchair manifestos are largely absurd descriptions of social reality and will be completely unrecognisable to Europe’s enormous army of unemployed and socially excluded. A similar remove from reality is reflected in quite a few places in this report. We see this, for example, in recital F, which emphatically opposes the attitude that ‘labour market considerations are subordinated to economic policy’. The Treaty’s convergence requirements and such like may, upon examination, perhaps be seen as wishful thinking, but the only problem is that the Treaty is out of step with reality. The other remark I have to make is that employment policy and labour market policy, in general, consist, in large measure, of just such political confessions of faith. On the one hand, this means that we are operating in an area where what is decided is not legally binding, and this, of course, gives free rein to a lot of fine words and good intentions. On the other hand, we are, to a large extent, in areas for which the Treaty provides no legal bases for proper legal regulation. What, however, there is, at present, no legal base for, there may in future be a legal base for. I am thinking, for example, of the reference to harmonisation of social arrangements, of tax policy etc. However, I would remind you that, in Denmark, we have a saying about all good intentions, to the effect that ‘the way to hell is paved with good intentions’."@en1

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