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dcterms:Date	"2003-09-02"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20030902.7.2-157"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-09-02-Speech-2-1582
lpv:speaker	lp:Theodorus J.J. Bouwman2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Romania Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 chair; EMPL (2002-01-21--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with Japan (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 member; G/EFA (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Conference of Committee Chairs (2002-01-21--2004-07-19)3 unknown; GroenLinks (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, first of all, I should like to express my thanks to the Commission. Two names have been mentioned: Mrs Diamantopoulou and Mrs Lambert, sitting next to her. I should like to take this opportunity to join in thanking them. As Mrs Oomen-Ruijten said, if you want to assess something in a historical framework, this can be done in two ways. Historically, we have been given a patchwork of provisions, a patchwork of adaptations, of a coordinating directive, No 1408/71, with its later amendments. We also have a catalogue of problems. It is then very good if we can make a little progress. This could represent a historical step forward. The historical vantage point should perhaps be a next step, but I shall come to this in a moment. I should first like to take stock of what we all have actually managed to achieve. I think that it is quite favourable in itself. It is clear, as Mrs Oomen-Ruijten stated before, that we have achieved a number of things that are already acceptable to the Council and to the Commission. These issues concern, for example, the inclusion of stateless persons and refugees, or regulations, or improvements should I say, in the field of bureaucratic obstacles to frontier work, and we could go on like this for a while. Quite a few problems nevertheless remain, as everyone knows. Only 2% of the European population carries out cross-border work in some form or other. If you engage in conversation with frontier workers, as has already been mentioned in the form of personal recollections, they will tell you that the problems know no bounds. We are also keeping a few issues open, and I think that we should take the following historical steps at some point. If we only consider the definition of families, then we will not solve the issue; we have to try to solve this by referring to the Santini report. Or if we look at a number of other issues related to family reunifications and benefits, etc., then one thing is very clear. We are now talking about improving the coordination of these systems; we are talking about modernising them and we are doing this against the backdrop of workers' mobility in Europe and a better-functioning labour market. In future, and this would be a historical step, we will still need to move towards some form of harmonisation, because we will otherwise fail to solve other problems, as the social security systems are under pressure in every Member State and, in actual fact, come into conflict with each other, which leads to the further development of this patchwork. I would like to see an end put to this."@en1

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