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"Madam President, like many other speakers, I think that the Commission communication is very narrow. What is being discussed is coordination of the economic guidelines and employment guidelines. We are agreed, however, that the concept must be expanded. We need an environmental process and, especially, we also need a social process as an important part of the total process which was developed from the Lisbon Summit. These four parts, which are each of independent importance, must be coordinated. Otherwise, we will see an imbalance, changing the character of employment policy, for it will then no longer be determined by the link to the social perspective but will easily become a structural policy which means that employment policy will become a kind of reflection or mirror image – or an appendage.
It is incredibly important to talk about social integration, work for all, good quality work. Many of these things are usually carried forward by the Commission. I sometimes wonder whether the Commission is speaking with a forked tongue, for it often emphasises the importance of good social goals of this kind, but at the same time these views are missing from this particular communication. I think this is so serious that I would like to formulate a kind of warning. If it should be the case that this is not just a coincidence but a trend, the balance and the harmony which seemed to follow from the Lisbon decisions will be replaced by conflict on the labour market and what we used to call class struggle. We are already seeing such trends today on Europe's labour market and these will become even clearer in the future. If we have this type of conflict to fight against, I believe that this is almost the worst thing that can happen for economic development in Europe.
Furthermore, I would like to add something which has to do with synchronisation and coordination. A kind of horizontal coordination of the economy and employment at European level is now being discussed. I think that, here too, we must talk about social and environmental issues. At the same time, there is vertical coordination between levels. The biggest problem of all which we face, and which even the Commissioner, for example, knows that I always return to, is that it makes no difference how much we coordinate at European level if we do not achieve better co-ordination between European level and national level and as long as the national labour markets are not sufficiently open. I would like to emphasise this particularly, as it is sometimes said rather vaguely that the national parliaments have to be given a greater place. However we must be clearer and talk about how this is to be achieved. My answer is always that responsibility must be given to the national parliaments."@en1
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