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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-03-11"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Employment strategy and social policy2
dcterms:Language	"sv"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030311.6.2-126"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-03-11-Speech-2-1272
lpv:speaker	lp:Lennart Sacrédeus2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Kristdemokraterna (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; EMPL (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Ukraine and the EU-Moldova Parliamentary Cooperation Committees and Delegation for relations with Belarus (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, I want sincerely to thank Mr Mann for the work he has put into this report and for all the compromise amendments through which considerable agreement was brought about in the relevant committee. For ourselves as Christian Democrats, it is extremely important that an employment strategy and a strategy for social welfare in Europe should combine fixed, stable values, built upon the ethical and moral basis that is European cultural history, with a social, market-oriented economy. I would emphasise that, in this context, we are concerned with both social and economic values and not, therefore, with a free-market economy devoid of ethical, moral and social values. I would particularly draw the Commission’s attention to item 37, which emphasises the importance of making it easier to combine family and professional life by creating greater opportunity for parents to spend more time with their children, by extending childcare facilities, by enabling parents to take parental leave and by providing tax concessions for childminders and foster parents and care and assistance facilities for the elderly. This item is also about allocating greater resources to programmes for combating female unemployment. I want really to focus upon what is in actual fact the biggest issue for Europe, namely the demographic challenge. I know that we have a Commissioner with a strong personal commitment to finding ways of solving the issue of obtaining a large enough European workforce and population in the future. Item 37 indicates the value of combining working life and family life and of giving more time to children. This report is therefore about seeing the Stockholm European Council’s decision of March 2001 on the demographic challenge as one of the absolutely most important issues for Europe. Item 37 emphasises this extremely clearly."@en1

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