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"Mr President, the leader of the ALDE Group, Mr Watson, says that a job is the best social welfare. Unfortunately there are too many millions of people in Europe working for less than what they might get if they were drawing social welfare. The poor and the low-paid die younger, suffer more physical and mental illness, are hospitalised more, are imprisoned more, are excluded from participating fully in society, are denied full cultural, civil, social, and indeed secure lives, and their children are largely condemned to the same vicious cycle of deprivation – unless, that is, we as politicians pursue social and economic policies which are integrated and interdependent. People must be treated as citizens, not as economic units.
Does this agenda achieve this? Regretfully, no. This is not to deny the positive elements – for instance the horizontal directive on discrimination. Nor indeed do I deny that Commissioner Špidla has struggled hard in a hostile environment to get this package approved. We will work with him to make it better. The Commission and the Council have nine months to prove their bona fides on social Europe. The people will then give their verdict."@en1
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