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"Mr President, my question is: how do you know if the policy you are pursuing is having the desired outcomes? You can make a guess; you can even make an educated guess, but you need to put in indicators and benchmarks. We already have economic and fiscal benchmarks, but social indicators remain the poor relation.
Yes, Commissioner, you said that employment challenges would henceforth be measured on a scoreboard in the draft joint employment report. But will the results be given an equal rating with economic indicators from the European Semester, for example? To me that is at the core of the question, because if we do not measure the performance of Member States’ social systems then we will continue to pursue a one-sided policy that is not delivering the outcomes of poverty reduction, increased employment or social inclusion.
Colleagues have said we need to reduce the debt – and yes we do – but if we find that we are reducing debt levels only very slowly, and if that is accompanied by rising poverty, shocking unemployment levels and some citizens not having access to health care, then we are playing a zero-sum game. When we divorce economic policy from the social outcomes of that policy I believe we are on the wrong road."@en1
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