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"Mr President, Commissioner, I have to disappoint you. Unlike some of my colleagues, I am not very enthusiastic about the regulation before us. I am quite sure that if no changes are made to the regulation during the consultation process many Member States will have the greatest difficulty in achieving the ambitious objectives of the European employment strategy to which they committed themselves in Lisbon.
If we are to see 70% of the population of working age in employment by 2010, this also requires helping older workers, giving people without good educational qualifications access to employment and getting disabled people into jobs, all of which means that supportive measures will be needed. I am sure that greater flexibility and structural reforms will not suffice to solve these problems. However, Commissioner, the regulation focuses so much on competition that it will be almost impossible to achieve these objectives.
Just one example: the ceilings for support for vulnerable workers are set so low that from one day to the next all Flemish social insertion firms that provide meaningful work for the unskilled long-term unemployed will have to close down, unless we reclassify the workers as disabled.
Another point: I am still concerned that the Commission fails to recognise the institutional reality of some Member States. In my country and in others, it is the regions that set support for employment programmes. As the regulation is currently drafted, this responsibility comes under the specific measures, not the general measures, and must therefore be notified by the regions.
Commissioner, I think that we have found a number of arguments for the Convention to limit competition policy, but I do hope that when the Commission applies this regulation it will be able to show that, even without amending the Treaty, it is able to reach a balance between employment objectives and competition objectives. And I should like to ask you whether it would be possible to ask the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs in charge of monitoring the Lisbon objectives for its views on this regulation."@en1
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