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"Madam President, Commissioner, first of all, I would like to welcome the report by my colleague, Ms Regina Bastos. The debate on these important documents is very important and comes at an opportune time. One feels that when there is trouble – and these days we often hear about how great this trouble is – we tend to learn faster.
Recently, when we started the debate on the 2020 strategy, we came to the conclusion that closer and deeper cooperation was needed both in terms of financial and economic processes. Social policies and employment policy, which are deemed social rights in the EU system, are also hit by a deep crisis these days, and we have realised or must realise that we need much closer cooperation, a common way of thinking, and joint efforts in order to change and improve the alarming data that many have quoted recently.
Naturally, we all support the Commission’s initiative regarding new skills and new jobs, just like the rapporteur. We agree that we need to reform the European labour market to make it more flexible and more efficient. We also agree that one of the major weaknesses of our European labour market is that it is characterised by structural tensions. While we are facing severe and painful unemployment, there are many people in and around the labour market with inadequate knowledge and skills. Furthermore, demand changes very rapidly. Even current skills and knowledge can become outdated very quickly.
The Commission, therefore, has the right inventory of actions which we, as a Community, can take, from labour exchange to a skills catalogue. There are many useful initiatives pointing in this direction. However, we need to stress – and our colleague very rightly does so – that while attempting to tackle the financial crisis, the second wave of the economic crisis, we should bear in mind that it is wrong to reduce and cut back training and education costs, because we risk losing future opportunities.
I would like to highlight two elements which I consider important. It seems that compared with the Commission’s proposal, the report probably shifts emphasis where support for small and medium-sized enterprises is concerned. It also puts forward more subtle and detailed proposals on ‘flexicurity’, regarding which we are ready to cooperate with the Commission in the future, because we believe that atypical work is one of the options of the future."@en1
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