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"Mr President, I should first of all like to extend warm thanks to Mr Roche for his brief from the Council, and particularly for what he said about older workers. It is my belief that we could achieve the Lisbon objectives in the field of employment if we were to succeed in creating a better labour market for older workers, so I was very disappointed to note that the Commission talks only about abolishing the financial instruments for them. We might as well deny them the right to vote. What the Commission states is wholly unacceptable. We need to create a labour market capable of offering scope, one that will also make such arrangements less necessary than they currently are.
Secondly, I should like to turn to the legislation itself. The Commission was right to point out that legislation on the internal market must be introduced swiftly. It too, of course, has come up with its own proposals, although you cannot help wondering whether they will contribute a tremendous amount to employment. I fear that the reverse might sometimes be true. I am also concerned that in the field of financial services, as was the case in the takeover directive, there is the temptation to emulate what we think is happening in the United States. I think we should carefully consider what effect all of this has on employment.
There is also the environment, of course. It is indeed the case that in the assessment of existing environmental laws, and the drafting of new ones, far more consideration should be given to the employment effects than has been the case to date. It is too easy to trivialise this, as Mr Langen has done.
My final point concerns productivity, an issue that I think is still very much being underestimated. Productivity ties everything together. If we improve productivity, we can do more, we can obtain better jobs. Often, though, it is the other side of this House that stands in the way of improving productivity because there is too much consideration for old ideas for which there is little sympathy in this day and age."@en1
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