Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-05-23-Speech-3-088"

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dcterms:Date	"2007-05-23"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Decent work (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20070523.4.3-088"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2007-05-23-Speech-3-0892
lpv:speaker	lp:Alessandro Battilocchio2
lpv:spokenAs	member; PETI (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 member; NA (2004-07-20--2007-10-23)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees, and for relations with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia (2007-03-20--2007-10-23)3 unknown; Partito Socialista Nuovo PSI (2004-07-20--2008-02-18)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the countries of Central America (2007-03-20--2007-10-23)3 substitute; TRAN (2007-01-31--2007-10-23)3 substitute; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2007-03-20--2007-10-23)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Armenia, EU-Azerbaijan and EU-Georgia Parliamentary Cooperation Committees (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 member; DEVE (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I am grateful to the Commission and to the rapporteur for having decided to tackle such an important issue. I shall not dwell upon the need to ensure that all the countries in the Union and, above all, the new Member States ratify the main agreements on this matter as soon as possible, or on the EU’s duty to eliminate all types of discrimination based on gender, religion, ethnicity or sexual orientation, as well as all types of improper conduct such as the still prevalent phenomenon of harassment, which may interfere with workers’ professional or private lives. I would like most of all to urge that we stop seeing things through the prism of an economy on an industrial scale grafted onto an eighteenth-century model. We cannot rely for our growth either on our own natural resources or on the availability of labour such as that in China, so we need a real revolution in thinking; we must realise, in fact, that we need to invest in human resources and to train people, offer them security and opportunities for growth. This is the best solution, if not the only one, for promoting the EU’s competitiveness and achieving the Lisbon objectives. If in the new economies such as Brazil or the Asian tigers the challenge of international trade is based on quantity, Europe has a duty and above all the possibility of differentiating itself by focusing on quality, creativity, and its cultural, intellectual and scientific heritage – in other words, on the main elements of our circumstances. The tertiary sector, whose raw material is people, seen not as bodies but as brains, is now the dominant sector. If, therefore, we give our citizens the possibility of expressing as well as they can their capacities and the skills acquired during years of study, then we will be ready to be a principal actor on the international stage – a role that we are in danger of losing. Economic development must be at the service of human beings, and not the other way round."@en1

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