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"Mr President, we now have 17 million unemployed in Europe. Unless we do something, we will have 21 million unemployed in Europe within a year, and 25 million unemployed at the beginning of 2010.
On 14 November, this Group said that we need to have a clear goal, and the Socialist and Social Democrat Party said the same at the weekend. Our goal must be not to allow the employment level to go down. Our financial stimulus will be defined by this clear goal of keeping people in work. We will lose jobs but we will create new ones to keep people in work. What I find missing here in the Commission's programme is not direction, but ambition and true coordination.
I know it is difficult. Please do not say that simply combining efforts – which is what governments always have done – is coordination, because it is not. I share your ambition of coordination, but let us join forces – this Parliament and you and the Council President – to ask the governments for once to understand how much added value you can get by doing things in a coordinated way. You and I know that you will get double the effect in your Member States.
My second point is this. If you do that, please could you, and the President of the Council, put this question to your colleagues, the Heads of State and Government in the Council: if we want to ensure the employment level, how much do we need? I have done the macro-economic calculations, which show that we need to invest – as the Spanish Government did – one percent of GDP, not only next year, but also in 2010 and in 2011. Otherwise we will not keep to this level.
So how do we do this? I would propose the following: that you, Commission President, make a list of priorities defined by our smart green growth strategy and the Lisbon goals, where the 27 Member States say that they agree with you and with the Council on this list. Then show Germany, France, Italy – all of us – how much added value we are gaining by doing things together. Then draw up a time schedule saying, for example: if you make your decisions before Christmas, we will meet again in February, before the spring, to evaluate what the effects have been. We will then be ready in the spring to make the second package and in the autumn to make the third package as part of a long-term strategy of ensuring our goals.
I am not saying that it will be easy. I am saying that I share your ambition but I am not seeing the goals being put into practice. Let us join forces and do it."@en1
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