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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, contrary to what one might think, today’s debate on the report on social inclusion in the new Member States is very much linked to the urgent issues we have been discussing since the start of this part-session. I refer to the Constitutional Treaty and the Financial Perspective.
An understanding of the most complex social problems faced by the Member States and a desire to solve these problems would render moot many of the arguments put forward by those who voted against the Constitution. The reason for this is that many issues relating to EU enlargement were either misrepresented to these voters or misunderstood by them.
The Őry report is thus concerned with solutions to problems that have a direct bearing on the EU’s future. Our debate on this issue, and the majority by which the House adopts the report, will prove that we are aware of the significance of this problem, and that we know it involves banishing the spectre of social dumping from the European Union. What is more, the fact that the goals of competitiveness and social cohesion as enshrined in the Lisbon strategy are complementary rather than mutually exclusive is emphasised. This was why the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs underlined the importance of economic development in facilitating social inclusion during its debates on the report, and indeed the Commissioner also stressed this aspect of the issue a short while ago.
On behalf of the Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, I should like to congratulate Mr Őry on the way in which this report has been drafted. I am delighted that the aforesaid Committee on Employment and Social Affairs adopted it by an overwhelming majority. Improvements could perhaps have been made to the way in which the proposed amendments were incorporated. In fact a number of the amendments I tabled on behalf of the Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe were ignored, even though they would have improved the report without making any fundamental changes.
The report we are debating today is an excellent one, and my group will vote in favour of it."@en1
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