Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-03-08-Speech-2-073"

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dcterms:Date	"2005-03-08"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Social situation in the European Union2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20050308.7.2-073"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2005-03-08-Speech-2-0742
lpv:speaker	lp:Philip Bushill-matthews2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, this is not a legislative report, and might therefore be regarded as unimportant. However, I agree with Mr Kułakowski that it is an important report, for two reasons. The first reason is the subject matter itself: the fact that growth across the EU has halved in the past three years, and that unemployment now affects 20 million people, constitutes not just an economic disaster but also a gigantic social disaster. As so often when unemployment rises, the hardest hit are the vulnerable: young people trying to enter the employment market for the first time; young mothers trying to re-enter it; older people trying to stay in it. Those are some of the groups who suffer most, as was so eloquently pointed out by my colleague Mr Crowley and emphasised by his constituents in the visitors’ gallery. This subject calls for debate, but above all it calls for action. The second reason this issue is so important is the difference in views over the action required. Some political parties want to drive real change, whereas others are determined to block it. The rapporteur believes that we need more, rather than less, of the failed policies of the past: that more public sector jobs are one answer; that harmonised labour regulations are another; that more targets are another; that more legislation can produce more jobs; that the Services Directive should be dropped when it should be embraced; that the European social model should be preserved when it should be reformed. The former would be a recipe for more unemployment and greater social injustice. The question now is whether, as in committee, the Socialists and Communists will vote as one to keep the old, failed agenda intact. On our side, we believe that it should not be voted through without fundamental amendment. We will vote to deliver the Lisbon Agenda, which means voting against the report as it stands."@en1
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lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"(Applause from the right)"1 "Bushill-Matthews (PPE-DE )."1

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