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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-10-23"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Employment guidelines for 2002/Joint employment report 20012
dcterms:Language	"pt"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20011023.4.2-064"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-10-23-Speech-2-0652
lpv:speaker	lp:Regina Bastos2
lpv:spokenAs	member; EPP-ED (2000-09-01--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Partido Social Democrata (2000-09-01--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (2000-09-07--2002-01-14)3 member; EMPL (2000-09-08--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I wish to begin by congratulating the rapporteur, Mrs Weiler, on the quality of her report. This House has been an enthusiastic supporter of the quantitative objectives laid down at the Lisbon and Stockholm European Councils with regard to the overall rate of employment, the rate of female employment and the rate of employment amongst the elderly. Unemployment, as has already been said, is one of the most serious economic and social problems the European Union faces and, currently, one in twelve citizens is unemployed, with the worst-affected groups being women, young people, the elderly, the disabled and members of ethnic minorities. The 2002 guidelines for employment must be accompanied in all aspects by qualitative objectives, hence the importance of adopting special measures for incentives and action in the field of economic and social cohesion for the least-developed regions which lack the appropriate structures. One pillar of the employment strategy, the entrepreneurial spirit, calls for priority to be given to the creation and growth of SMEs, which have enormous potential for job creation, as we can see from the most recent data from Eurostat, which shows that micro-enterprises with between one and nine workers made the greatest increase in terms of job creation in the European Union. The report quite rightly highlights reducing bureaucratic and tax obligations as a means of stimulating the creation and growth of companies. Nevertheless, we must reiterate that active support must be provided for the creation of infrastructures to support research and development, vocational training and lifelong learning so as to ensure the quality and continuity of employment. We all know that the European Union will only become a knowledge-based economy if all Member States make investment in human resources their absolute priority."@en1

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