I would therefore urge that we try, systematically and intensively, to raise social legislation in all countries to the highest level so that our social Europe will be an improvement for all workers in Europe, not a retrograde step.

Subject Commission's Social Action Programme

Finally, we must not forget that this report raises high expectations, whereas the Treaty accords the EC only very limited powers in the social sphere.

What is the good of launching the programme of social action ?

The Commission should be called upon to prepare a plan of action for the elimination of unemployment as from the year 2000 with the involvement of member countries and organizations on the labour market.

Each Member State pursues an employment policy and studies labour market trends and rightly so, for no Member State can stand idly by while unemployment goes on without let up.

There is so much organic social action all around Google that the company decided to form a social responsibility team just to support these efforts.

A certain measure of regulation at European level is essential. But this does not mean that

But even for a few limited points, such as the essential ones indicated for this six months' period namely the directive on atypical work contracts, the directive on the use of working time and the directive on worker participation in the management of enterprises the paperwork is lacking.

apparent at once, and information about these risks must reach all workers without exception, male and female, whenever there are risks prejudicial to the reproductive system.

HERMANS (PPE), in writing. (NL) I voted for this social action programme.

Finally, Mr President, I should like to stress the urgent need for a directive on the minimum wage. Article 118A would seem the legal basis for such a European initiative.

1 think that these lines of action and policy to the extent that they are the responsibility of the Council which, as we all know, receives proposals for directives from the Commission arc surely acceptable.

At annual meetings, a large number of Member States discussed in depth the links between programmes under the ESF, the European Employment Strategy and national action plans on social inclusion.

The biggest question is however that, in the face of this hotchpotch of indications, and having made all the positive assessments, politics requires a decision to be taken that concentrates on the concrete possibilities.

It is the first of a whole raft of measures under the Social Action Programme which we as a parliament are obliged to consider.

At an England wide level the Social Exclusion Unit has a remit to improve Government action by promoting joined up solutions .

Founded by a writer, a church group and a grassroots, social action collective called Groundation Grenada, Mt.

It is lacking, partly because it has been presented by the Commission after the dates we indicated it is lacking because the opinions of Parliament are lacking and it is lacking because it has been promised for a later date.

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26. Decides that the Economic and Social Council shall oversee system wide coordination of the implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action

We obviously recognize the serious social consequences of changing an economy from a command economy to a social market economy.

It was too expensive to have decentralized social production, to have decentralized action in society. That was not about society itself.

The paramount need now is not military action, not diplomatic action but humanitarian action for these refugees.

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At a European and national level since Lisbon concrete measures to fight poverty, discrimination and social exclusion have been agreed, supported by new action programmes .

As the representative of organised civil society, the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) denounces this action and the xenophobia and racism it embodies.

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