Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-07-04-Speech-2-202"
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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I am tempted to go back over Mr Harbour’s remarks. While he has experienced redundancies and restructuring, I myself have been made redundant three times due to economic developments and restructuring in the Nord Pas-de-Calais, in France. The Socialist Group in the European Parliament is in favour of a policy enabling businesses to create jobs, to modernise and to promote economic development. Yet, when it talks about economic development, the PSE Group is also talking about social support, with a view to creating wealth, but to redistributing it too. Europe must demonstrate its European social model.
That is the reason why we have worked collectively and why more than 80% of us voted in favour of a report on restructuring and employment, in which we state that we certainly need to provide for a form of support, but that we also need to enlighten Europe about what we are and about what we do. We voted in favour, by a very large majority, in an effort to say that, if Europe provides economic aid and public money and if it becomes clear at any given time that a form of ‘subsidised tourism' exists, then that money must be reimbursed. General Motors, where last year more than 500 000 employees were affected by restructuring, is one such example that is of concern to us today. We are not complaining, but we do believe that everyone must be respected, and employees in particular.
Restructuring is necessary in order to keep our businesses economically competitive. It still has many consequences for all that. In the case of General Motors today, as in many cases of restructuring, Europeans are awaiting a strong response from the Union. Mr Barroso gave us this response by calling on the new Finnish Presidency to embody the Europe of results. Well, the Europe of results starts here, in this Chamber, with a strong signal sent out to the employees who are currently in difficulties. Support measures must of course be taken, concerning training and aid, but we must ask ourselves as from today how the public money that has been distributed will be paid back."@en1
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