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"Mr President, the European Employment Strategy, properly and pragmatically carried out by Member States, has the capacity to fulfil the employment goals set up within the framework of the Lisbon employment targets. It should indeed reflect a wide anti-discrimination policy, the promotion of gender equality providing a tool for tackling the gender gaps in the labour market.
The European Employment Strategy must be regarded not only as a tool for attracting more people to the labour market; it should also present a favourable and open opportunity to join the labour market for those who have particularly limited access to employment, such as older women, single parents and ethnic minorities. It must be admitted that the challenge of Europe’s ageing society can only be tackled with the increased participation of those special groups in the labour market, as Commissioner Špidla said.
All kinds of obstacles must be eliminated. We are striving for more and better jobs, having declared 2006 the European Year of Workers’ Mobility. For Europe’s workforce, mobility provides for new skills, new experiences, flexibility and a capacity to adapt to the different working conditions and constantly changing market needs. Mobility is a value contributing to the benefit of the whole European economy. That is an urgent need that must be recognised by some Member States which still maintain barriers to the new EU countries’ workforce.
Finally, I think that the EES has the potential to become the strategy to move towards full employment, making work a real option for all, increasing the quality and productivity of work, and anticipating and managing change, highlighting a more cohesive society of equal opportunities for anyone striving to promote diversity and non-discrimination.
My Hungarian colleague, Mrs Kósáné Kovács, has prepared an outstanding report of great value and I propose that her recommendations be adopted."@en1
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