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"Mr President, Commissioner, thank you for this opportunity to debate before the Commission deliberates on these proposals. Employment, poverty, the economic, financial and social crisis in the European Union, and the subsequent austerity measures in the budgets of the Member States, force us, at European level, to fully address the issues of employment and social policies and to regard the European Social Fund (ESF) as a tool of EU economic policy and the EU budget for meeting not only the treaty objectives of economic, social and territorial cohesion but also the objectives of the strategy, the draft of which the Heads of State or Government have just accepted, which include increasing the employment rate and combating poverty.
In this context, with the ESF now under review, I would like to send out some signals to Commissioner Andor. We think that the regions are the effective authorising bodies of European public expenditure. However, that does not mean that the instruments of economic policy must be reduced to the imperative of territorial cohesion. Cohesion also includes economic and social cohesion. It may be scheduled by the regions, but it must meet economic and social objectives that concern all parts of the European Union. Commissioner, when you review these rules, I urge you to take account of the experience gained in the implementation of the Globalisation Adjustment Fund, where the capacity exists for individualisation and for adaptation to each of the workers concerned, which may also be useful for the European Social Fund. I also urge you to link in some of the objectives of our Europe 2020 strategy: employability, employment, the fight against poverty, and research and development. Research and development is certainly very important for Galileo and others. Commissioner, as regards social innovation, there is an immense wasteland, which I urge you to explore using the ESF with, no doubt, in this case, somewhat different cofinancing deals. I fully endorse what Mrs Zimmer said: employability cannot be the sole objective of the ESF. There is also the question of combating social exclusion and taking into account the most vulnerable sections of the population – the young, women, people with disabilities and the Roma population, to name but a few.
Finally, Commissioner, I would like to say a word on the conditions of use of the ESF. We know everyone says: ‘There is Kafka in the home, there is Kafka in Brussels.’ There are rules for the use of the ESF which are too difficult to implement. Therefore, let us think about a kind of geometry which varies depending on the quality of the use of public expenditure by the regions. Where regions are happily capable of being authorising bodies, let us relax control. Where there is a need for administrative support, let us invent new mechanisms. And, finally, as regards the return of the money that is not used in the budgets of the Member States, I urge you to imagine abolishing this rule, which is not the right way to use the European Social Funds to further employment and social inclusion."@en1
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