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"Mr President, Commissioner, Mr Aznar Lopez, I too visited Barcelona, not with the intention of playing an active role in the Summit, but because the Summit coincided with a joint conference of NGOs on sustainable development which involved NGOs of employers’ organisations, NGOs of environmental organisations, the European Environment Agency and the social platform.
Sustainable development should have been the topic of this Summit too. Those who attended the NGO conference were bitterly disappointed by the fact that – and this has also been raised by Mr Blokland – very little actual progress has been made in the area of integration of economic, social and, above all, environmental policy. The Laeken Summit may have produced a few structural indicators in the field of environment, but integration has clearly not been achieved. A growth of 3%, or thereabouts, does not yet mean long-term sustainable growth. This is one of the problems we are facing.
In addition, the social NGOs and employers’ organisations have made it abundantly clear that although they naturally favour full employment, all kinds of conditions are lacking in order to meet this objective, and that it is not easy to achieve mobility or flexibility, for example, within this labour market when a number of conditions required for this are not in place.
Somewhere in the Minutes of the Council declaration, it is stated that what matters is flexibility and social security. However, at the moment the temporary employment directive, for example, which could lead to more flexibility and security, is meeting with a great deal of resistance. All manner of obstructions are being placed in front of this directive.
This also applies to a few more areas. The social platforms mentioned aspects related to the liberalisation and its implications for the service industry. We recently held a debate here on the liberalisation of services that are of general interest. The evaluation of this liberalisation was very mediocre. Consequently, the employers’ organisations and social NGOs are anxious about the implications of any further liberalisation of the energy markets where only a minimal energy levy is planned to benefit the environment. They need clarity on aspects such as the future of health care and education, as well as the implications for our service industries in general. I should simply like to draw the attention to these concerns once more.
These concerns were expressed by the hundreds of thousands people who took part in the protest and subsequently by the two or three hundred thousand people who do not see eye to eye with the anti-globalists. We will have to try to back up our intentions with facts, concrete directives and answers to questions raised. And that is what causes me some level of concern."@en1
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