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"Mr President, the proposed guidelines for employment policies presented by the Commission for Parliament’s consideration are rich in pious generalisations: improving overall employment rates, improving employment rates among women and the elderly, improving quality and productivity of work, strengthening social cohesion and integration into the job market – all of these are generalisations which we have already heard a hundred times, which teach us nothing and which will surely teach the governments of the Member States nothing either.
Nevertheless, the coordinated employment strategy might have been useful, if it had gone into more detail, spoken of more precise problems and compared countries – if it had been pointed out, for example, that the unemployment rate in the countries of the euro area is approaching 9%, while in ‘non-euro’ countries it is in the region of 5%. Are there really no conclusions to be drawn from this fact? Even within the euro area, the disparities are very great. Leaving Luxembourg, an exceptional case, to one side, we see Austria on 4.2% and Ireland on 4.5%, at one end of the scale, with France on 9.3% and Spain on 11.9% at the other end. Faced with such differences, can we really extrapolate universally applicable guidelines without regressing into abstraction and even artificiality? For my part, I would rather see more respect for the spirit of open coordination – of diversity, of the exchange of good practice – and talk in concrete terms of successful experiments, which should be passed on."@en1
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