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"Mr President, I wanted to start by just making the point that austerity is not a philosophy or a practice restricted to the eurozone. Those living in the UK should well understand that it is a matter of political choice. I wanted to say that Parliament has long stressed the need for the economic and social dimension of the Semester to carry equal weight, and of course I agree totally with my colleague Sven Giegold on the environmental dimension there. We need to care about our natural capital as well.
But the social dimension is about more than employment. We are risking coming back as if somehow employment is the be—all and end—all. It is important, of course, and we should recognise that labour market flexibility, for example, does not mean that all power passes to the employer. Employers are expected to flexible as well as workers. We need to recognise that shifting work patterns must not mean that people lose their social rights, and that trickle-down, as mentioned by one or two other speakers, is a very poor form of social irrigation. We know that, if you really want things to grow, you water from the roots up and you look after the people first.
When we are talking about the Social Impact Assessment linked to the Semester, I think it really is time that we saw it operating so that we are looking at the widest impact of the potential policies that are actually being pursued, and so that we are not actually destroying what we claim to be protecting."@en1
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