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I have voted in favour of the report, and welcome the initiative by the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs.
I agree with the rapporteur when (in response to the views put forward by the Convention’s four working groups) she calls for the open method of coordination to be defined more clearly and to be included in the Treaty. Each national report must indicate how representatives of civil society, including the social partners, and local, regional and national authorities, including the Parliament, have been consulted.
I have always stood up for and emphasised the importance of the irreplaceable role at local level of national parliaments and communities (specifically those that are involved or targeted) in forming and expressing the ‘Community will’, because this does not correspond to a federalist vision of a supposed ‘European will’. It is instead the result of a ‘desire to understand’, a composition of disparate interests, a convergence of values and aims. Sharing best practices, which forms part of the open method of coordination, is, therefore, an approach that needs to be improved, developed and extended to other areas, because of the useful effect it has had on employment policies. This approach could lead to genuine convergence and could benefit everyone, without entailing the more or less imposed nature of legislation.
Lastly, I have also supported the suggestion to ask the Commission to draw up a study on the method’s effectiveness."@en1
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