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"Madam President, Commissioner, it is good to have a joint debate about the economic crisis, the downturn in the real economy and the Commission’s work programme. These issues belong together. It is also good that the Commission is proposing coordinated efforts. However, in my opinion, this is not so clearly reflected in the work programme.
Voices have been heard within the Council to the effect that we should now cut down on environmental investments and our ambitions relating to the environment. I totally disagree with this view. Nor do I share the view, as expressed by a number of others, that we must now cut back in the social area. In fact we must do the opposite. What we need is investment in research and development, new environmental technology and a new infrastructure that is much more environmentally friendly than the infrastructure we have today. We must train the workforce and ensure that young people get the right training so that we maintain our competitiveness, but also strengthen individuals for the future.
If I then turn to the work programme and look at the social area, I can see that this is not a Commission that has prioritised the social area. Allow me to give two examples. We have listened to Mr Rasmussen; now I think we in the social area should also be heard. The report that I was responsible for dealt with equal treatment on the labour market within the EU and the right to take industrial action for equal treatment. The Commission must now respond to this with concrete measures for equal treatment on the labour market in the EU by amending the Posting of Workers Directive and by means of a social protocol. That is the first issue. The second is what is happening in the area of the working environment, where we are seeing an increase in the number of accidents throughout the EU, at least in certain Member States, because we are giving this area lower priority. This is also something that the Commission must respond to so that we tie together long-term sustainable development, that is to say economic, environmentally-friendly and social development."@en1
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