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"Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, ‘new skills and new jobs’ sounds innovative. It sounds like a green process for modernising the European economy. However, if you take a look at the report, you will find that this is entirely wrong. Unfortunately, the Commission is not playing a leading role in exploiting the employment potential of a green economy. Sadly, this is not the case. The Commission is focusing on making fundamental employees’ rights more flexible, which is the wrong approach.
In order to modernise the European economy, we need well-trained, skilled workers and companies can only retain these workers if they offer good working conditions. I have experience of this in the region where I come from. It is a major centre for the solar industry in Europe, but because the pay there is poor, in other words, worse than elsewhere, there is a lack of skilled workers.
The Bastos report corrects the Commission’s approach and rightly so. It demonstrates that a well-functioning labour market must be inclusive, as a previous speaker has confirmed. Most importantly, good jobs must be combined with investment in training. This is the only key to the success of an industrial society and the only opportunity for Europe to become a leading industrial society, by means of green modernisation. This will create enormous potential for green jobs.
I am curious to find out when the Commission will finally submit its communication on green jobs, so that we can begin to deal with the issues highlighted in the Bastos report and with the parliamentary initiative launched by my report. This will give us the opportunity to create real jobs in Europe and to combat poverty and unemployment."@en1
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