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"Mr President, Mr Winkler, Mr Barroso, I should like to go back over one part of your speech. You said, with good reason:, that we must progress on two levels: The strengthening of the single market, on the one hand, and social solidarity, on the other. I would add: social justice and equity. I believe, Mr Barroso, that the rejection and the Europessimism are fuelled by a rather keen awareness of the fact that we are not actually progressing on two levels and that the action of your Commission, like, I might add, that of the Council, has been to prioritise the first level. I should like to tell you or to remind you that, under your Presidency, as, moreover, under the Prodi Commission, no new social legislation has been decided on by the European institutions. Furthermore, no new collective agreement between social partners has been decided on either. It is this serious imbalance – I believe – that is increasingly affecting one section of the population, the one which, as a result of globalisation, has the most uncertain status. It seems to me that the Council, Parliament and the Commission should respond to this situation.
That brings me to my second point, which concerns the instruments designed to promote social solidarity or social justice. Mr Barroso, we will be unable to build an equitable model in the future if we do not have a fiscal policy at European level. That is the contradiction between those who are reluctant to pursue enlargement and those who want more social justice: maintaining unanimity on all fiscal matters amounts to standing in the way of a possible European fiscal policy. It has taken 15 years to have a directive on savings income, which is, for that matter, full of derogations, and we are not making any progress on common standards in relation to corporate tax.
To conclude, Mr President, the European Union’s political project does not amount to a single market, which we need, but to a form of competition among national models. We need a more proactive approach and more common policies at European level in order to guarantee fairness and a European social model."@en1
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