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"Madam President, I would like to emphasise one issue that several speakers have already touched on in this debate. The influence of both the national parliaments and the European Parliament on the European Semester needs to increase. If the process merely results in horse trading between national governments involving very little transparency, as it did this year, it cannot have any great value. Creating real legitimacy requires openness and a proper debate.
I would also like to emphasise the social perspective, which has consistently been significantly under-represented in this year’s Semester. Poverty, unemployment, inferior working conditions, the social divide and a weakened social security system are aspects that have been ignored, despite the fact that they currently play an absolutely key role in the European economy. The crisis that we are having to deal with is just as much a social one as an economic one.
One important reason for the distorted set of priorities and analyses is the fact that the social partners and the socially active non-governmental organisations have still not been given a clear role in the process. That is something that must be assigned to them now. Without active, dynamic work in the social sphere, it will not be possible to establish sustainable growth."@en1
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