Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2010-03-24-Speech-3-040"

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dcterms:Date	"2010-03-24"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Lena Ek2
lpv:spoken text	"Madam President, the Council will meet tomorrow to discuss the future of a Europe that is faced with enormous challenges. At the present time, we are dealing with a financial crisis, leading to a jobs crisis, in combination with a climate crisis. An economic growth based on social and environmental grounds is crucial to kick-start Europe, but I am afraid that the Council and Commission’s proposals for governance – however welcome – will be too vague and will not help to achieve the set targets. If implemented as it stands, Europe 2020 will be another Lisbon Strategy – a failure. Europe should instead dare to attack these challenges head on with bold governance proposals. Firstly, the open coordination method is not working and must be abandoned. Instead, binding targets should be established and followed up by the Commission, in accordance with the articles available in the Lisbon Treaty. Secondly, if funding should be conditional on how well a Member State lives up to its obligations according to the 2020 strategy, we cannot keep spending taxpayers’ money on governments that lie and cheat with statistics – solidarity, yes, but based on transparency. Thirdly, the Commission should publish its annual reports with policy recommendations in Parliament before they are discussed in Council. An open process would create transparency and permit citizen involvement. As European politicians, we should always strive to put the citizens at the centre of our policy. So let us make that promise a reality and upgrade the Commission’s kitten to a tiger – and a tiger with teeth."@en1
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lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Lena Ek (ALDE )."1
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