Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2011-07-04-Speech-1-259-000"
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"en.20110704.30.1-259-000"2
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"In its communication on social services of general interest the Commission already admitted last year that not all the Member States have the financial means to meet the growing demand for social services. In some countries there are, in fact, gaping holes in the social safety nets. It is important that we now fill these gaps.
Mr De Rossa’s report is an important step in this direction, with the aim that social services may continue to facilitate social equality and social integration in the immediate future. The European Commission’s one-sided political concentration on the rules of the internal market is a big mistake. Budgetary consolidation at all costs is not the solution. The public sector has become the main target of all the austerity measures which are aimed at bringing budget deficits back into line following the rescue packages given to banks threatened with bankruptcy. The loss of public services will only increase the suffering of those who have been particularly hard hit by the current crisis in many Member States.
I welcome the European Voluntary Quality Framework, which aims to ensure high quality even in difficult times. This is, moreover, a voluntary quality framework that includes the stakeholders in the process, and its principles support the quality systems of the Member States. I hope that the Commission will continue along the lines set out in Mr De Rossa’s report and its own communication from last year; in other words, that it will ‘fill the gaps’ rather than tearing open new holes."@en1
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