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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-06-03"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030603.1.2-018"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-06-03-Speech-2-0192
lpv:speaker	lp:Jean Lambert2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, I wish to add my group's congratulations to the rapporteur on the great amount of work that he has done on this report in an extremely short space of time. However, we regret the lack of proper coordination within this Parliament with the broad economic policy guidelines and hope that we can rectify that in the future. We welcome the general thrust of the report and the Commission's proposals about the coordination with other strategies of the European Union, for example social inclusion. However, there is still a great underestimation of the importance of the sustainability strategy within this overall package as well. We also welcome, however, the increased emphasis on the role of women in the report, and indeed the Commission's response to that, but we regret its removal as an overarching goal. We also welcome the increasing emphasis on the work-life balance. However, men will not achieve that until women have truly equal treatment in the workplace, and that includes equal pay. We have a degree of sympathy with some of the remarks made about the cost of employment in terms of the costs to employers. However, the level of wages is also important and we are well aware that in certain Member States and some of the accession countries even the national minimum wage is effectively a poverty wage. Employers need to be looking at that dimension and not just the costs of employment. To return to the issue of coordination with other polices, another one which should be included is our trade policies. We are working for a trading system which effectively drives production costs down and which encourages companies to relocate in search of competitive advantage. Therefore, we also need to examine the goals of our trade policy and the way they work with our employment policy because we are not convinced they are travelling in the same direction at all."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Green Party (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; PETI (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; EMPL (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Malta Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3 vice-chair; G/EFA (2002-01-08--2004-07-19)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Lambert (Verts/ALE )."1

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