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Employment MEPs delegation to Madrid

30/04/2013

During an institutional trip to Madrid, the chairman of the Employment delegation of the European Parliament, Pervenche Berès (S&D, FR), highlighted that Spain needs to put pressure on the Council of Ministers to provide sufficient funds to the EU social assistant budget to reduce unemployment. The country will succeed in its fight against unemployment only if keeps a good social dialogue, added.

« Today we finish a two-day visit to gather information about the measures taken in Spain to reduce the unemployment, especially among young people », said Pervenche Berès. « Our delegation has not come here neither in a control mission nor to impose sanctions, but to know closer the needs of the countries in troubles, and to be able to help them, showing the European Parliament´s determination to contribute to the solutions ».

Social dialogue

« We have found that in all the countries which have implemented the European Social Fund programs to create new jobs, the success is associated with a high quality of social dialogue with trade unions and business organizations. I have the impression that in this country this is a controversial issue. Spain must examine why the quality of its social dialogue is not allowing it to leave the crisis ».

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Europe Facing More Pressure to Reconsider Cuts as a Cure

26/04/2013 Pervenche Berès, Socialist chairwoman of the Employment and Social Affairs Committee, is skeptical that signs of greater flexibility will result in a dramatic change of policy. “They still want to kill Keynes,” she said, referring to the British economist John Maynard Keynes, who believed that fiscal stimulus, not contraction, is sometimes the best solution to crisis. “They always make minimal changes at the very last minute when they have no choice,” she added. Pour lire la suite de l’article