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"Mr President, I thank you all for this very rich discussion and I would like to thank the Danish Presidency for highlighting the importance of the employment package which was announced from this position in the Chamber one month ago by President Barroso. Indeed, this package includes a number of initiatives on the demand for labour, on the need for more investment in skills, on the need for balanced labour market reforms and on helping mobility in the European Union in order to improve the situation and create jobs in the near future. It also includes action plans in three key areas, including green jobs, and we would like to work hand in hand with the Member States in order to implement this as fast as possible.
In order to raise awareness of this and put it into practice, we will hold a European employment conference in early September which will be opened by President Barroso and President Schulz, and closed by President Van Rompuy.
There are many things we need to do in the area of employment, but top of the agenda is, of course, Youth. This is the biggest theme on which we have been working with the Danish Presidency i.e. the re-launch of the Youth guarantee programme. We are very active in reallocating EU Structural Funds (ESF) within the Member States which are most affected by youth unemployment in order to have projects that bring results faster and with greater efficiency. Together with Johannes Hahn, we went to the Member States on a number of occasions, including Greece, where there is a need for action and reinforcement of the implementation of the ESF. I can tell you that we managed to speed up the implementation of the Structural Funds in Greece with the help of the taskforce, but also in other countries like Romania – just to name a country which is outside the euro area but also in need of a lot of assistance in this respect.
These efforts are very important. They are necessary but they will certainly be insufficient if we do not make progress with the macro-economic policies. That is why it is very important that progress is made in the coming weeks on the policies that Vice-President Rehn has championed, for example, putting forward the stability bonds which the Commission already did last October.
Thank you for your many comments and proposals that I heard in the discussion, except for one, on the Thatcherite deregulation of the employment and social area in the European Union. I think this is a kind of obsession that has to be sidelined and we have to continue our work on the commitment to social rights, social cohesion and improving working conditions.
We need many reforms in the labour market, for example, pension reforms that help people to work longer. However, in order to ensure that, we have to approach this with a readiness to invest more and also protect those people who suffer from the consequences of mass unemployment in the European Union at this time. I believe we can continue on this track to ensure that social cohesion prevails and, at the same time, improve competitiveness and overcome the financial crisis."@en1
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