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dcterms:Date	"2003-05-15"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Broad economic policy guidelines (2003-2005)2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030515.1.4-025"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-05-15-Speech-4-0262
lpv:speaker	lp:Gérard Caudron2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Socialiste Indépendant (2002-07-10--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Bulgaria Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-10-14--2004-07-19)3 member_of_the_bureau; EUL/NGL (2002-09-10--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Poland Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-06--2004-04-30)3 substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-09-09--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the question we are debating this morning is an important one. Hence, the regret and even anger I immediately feel at seeing Parliament consulted too late, and therefore too briefly, about an issue that is, however, vital to our fellow Europeans. We are indeed concerned with the period 2003-2005 which, as may be seen, has already largely begun. My second regret, which also amounts to clear, firm disagreement, relates to the liberal philosophy underlying the report. The European Commission’s proposal and the report, are again based upon a justification of the Stability and Growth Pact, a fact which goes on to lay the foundations for almost all the proposals put before us. As many of my fellow MEPs have said, this is a step that is, at one and the same time, outmoded and retrograde. When growth is seen to have declined considerably and sharp increases in employment are again seen everywhere, there is nothing for it but to be in favour of revising the Stability and Growth Pact. If growth is to be stimulated and jobs created, we must, as Europeans, give ourselves room for manoeuvre in our public finances in order to increase public and private investment, to stimulate research and development and to take account of the social dimension as a positive factor, rather than the restraining one that the liberals maintain it is. In the guidelines proposed to us, there is therefore, at one and the same time, an evident lack of political ambition and a dramatic inversion of political priorities, whereby employment becomes what I shall call a variable used to make adjustments to finances, the economy and the stock exchange and which leads to a proliferation of company restructurings whose only purpose is to increase financial profits. That is why, this morning, I would state my overall disagreement with the spirit, the principles and the poverty of the proposals being put before us. We shall therefore, of course, vote in favour of the amendments aimed at improving them, but we shall continue to fight for a Europe in which citizenship and the social dimension count for more. Since I still have a few seconds left, I should like to conclude with a final word in the form of a question to those of our fellow MEPs who, this morning, have had some very harsh words to say about employees who defend their pensions, and I would ask them if they themselves are prepared to sacrifice their parliamentary pensions. In the light of my experience, allow me to say, Madam President, that I think they are probably not so prepared."@en1

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