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"Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I believe that job creation is one of the main actions to be taken in response to the need to re-launch the EU economy. The negative figures from the 27 Member States, as quoted by the rapporteur, along with the uncertain financial prospects and large numbers of people suffering poverty mentioned in Ms Damanaki’s speech, make it an uphill struggle.
I believe that the target of 75% employment for the 20-64 age group by the end of 2020 is over-ambitious. The commitment should perhaps be revised and made more realistic given the dramatic evidence of the financial crisis. In fact, I believe that if we set exaggerated targets, it is easy to fail when identifying the tools necessary for achieving them, and the conclusions drawn at the 2010 Lisbon Summit should make us ponder this fact.
Bearing this in mind, I share the rapporteur’s conviction that the Commission’s commitments, which were announced in a communication last November, are to be supported and can, in any case, be improved with everyone’s help. More specifically I believe that the creation of a flexible and secure market is a priority.
On this point, it is essential to step up efforts to define flexible contractual provisions able to cater for social and geographical variations and, above all, to safeguard workers against insecurity; to introduce new tools to promote active labour market policies, with measures increasing the accountability of intermediaries; to modernise education and training in order to bring qualifications into line with market demand; and to revise safety systems to make them more efficient without impacting on costs, especially with regard to small and medium-sized enterprises.
Finally, measures should be adopted to make the market inclusive, in order to guarantee access by women, young people and disadvantaged groups, and the return to work of people who have left the labour market."@en1
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