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dcterms:Date	"2012-10-25"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:European Semester for economic policy coordination: implementation of 2012 priorities (debate)2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20121025.29.4-397-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2012-10-25-Speech-4-398-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Elisa Ferreira2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; TRAN (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with India (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Partido Socialista (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; ECON (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 member; S&D (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the Gauzès report, together with the report we will be drafting at the end of the year on the Union’s annual growth prospects, which will arrive before the Spring Council, are two key parts of the ‘European Semester’. This report examines the recommendations made to each of the Member States by the Council on a proposal by the Commission, and these recommendations fit in, as has just been said, with the Six-Pack and the future Two-Pack, an extraordinarily robust corpus, which bolsters European control of Member States’ economic and budgetary policy. It is not easy to strike a balance between this control and autonomy and legitimacy at national level and the bar has slipped to a level of imposition, of discipline especially and, ultimately, can even lead to a serious package of sanctions. As regards the Two-Pack, I would like to say briefly that it is important that the Council, which is not represented here today, give a negotiating mandate to its negotiators that reflects the ambition to wrap up this package, the Two-Pack, speedily. However, getting back to the subject, more European coordination means countries have less control of their own fate, which means there has to be a subtle balancing act yet also an increased demand for quality in the recommendations made to countries in at least three or four areas. Firstly, it is important to ensure consistency between medium and long-term objectives that include growth, employment and real convergence and short-term recommendations focusing above all on discipline and nominal convergence; secondly, there needs to be coherence with the conclusions that need to be drawn from the analysis of macroeconomic imbalances, in particular the asymmetrical impact of common policies and negative externalities, the indirect effects of certain national policies on other countries; thirdly, we need to agree that there is a minimum threshold for social, economic and working rights that these recommendations must not cross and, lastly, it is imperative that the quality of the recommendations be measured by the results obtained, which is far from being the case up to now. I will finish now, Mr President, but I would just like to thank Mr Gauzès for his spirit of cooperation and I hope he is able to take another step further in this spirit so that the consensus around his report can be extended and that this spirit also stretches to the next report we are going to discuss."@en1
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