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"Mr President, this debate is taking place at a particularly difficult moment for the social situation in the European Union. We are a long way from the economic growth and rising employment of the late 1990s, as a consequence of restrictive economic and financial policies, the Stability Pact and the rapid liberalisations and privatisations called for by the Lisbon Strategy.
Today, with rising social and regional inequalities, unemployment affecting almost 20 million workers, growing job insecurity and almost 70 million people living in poverty, social inclusion and cohesion have to be a priority, a central concern in this mid-term review of the Lisbon Strategy. That means not only creating secure jobs, but also sharing out the created wealth more fairly, through social policies designed to ensure human rights, better pensions and retirement provision, quality public services in health, education, research and vocational training, social security and protection, housing and family support, paying particular attention to promoting equal rights for women and taking account of suitable environmental policies.
Instead of that, the President of the Commission, Mr Barroso, has come here to state that the Lisbon Strategy is at the centre of our economic policies, following the conclusions of the Kok report, which places particular emphasis on competitiveness. What is required, however, as mentioned in our group’s resolution, is to call a halt to this neoliberal race, to strengthen public investment at EU and national levels, to put a stop to the privatisation of public sectors and services, to withdraw the proposal for a directive to create the internal market in services, to revoke the Stability Pact, to establish a clear distinction between current spending and investment, and to promote a development and employment pact, prioritising growth in jobs with rights, social inclusion, and economic, social and territorial cohesion, the only way to help create the 22 million secure jobs that are required to meet the 70% target by 2010 laid down in the Lisbon Strategy.
If that does not happen, we will have a rise in social tensions among the people in our countries in protest at the policies we are implementing. They want greater social protection and better social policy, and that, Mr President, is the challenge."@en1
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