European Employment Pact

The content of the future European employment pact must learn from previous experience.

We say are in favour of the European employment pact, but a formula is not enough on its own.

Let us be clear about what we are seeking from the European Employment Pact.

We fully share the views expressed on the European Employment Pact.

The 'European Employment Pact' is certainly a good thing.

The macroeconomic dialogue is part of the European Employment Pact.

This 'European Employment Pact' is an essential adjunct to the stability pact.

A large part of the Council's work concentrated on employment and launched the idea of a European employment pact.

The committee decided also to include the European Employment Pact planned for the Cologne summit.

In Dresden, the finance ministers were responsible for drawing up a European Employment Pact.

Mr President, the macroeconomic dialogue that the European employment pact has established is a highly praiseworthy new exercise.

Therefore we want to conclude a European employment pact at the Cologne European Council.

One example is the European Employment Pact that is to be adopted at the summit in Cologne.

What the European Employment Pact can achieve is a commitment to ends and also to means, and above all macro-economic coordination.

We therefore welcome the German Presidency's proposal to make headway on a European Employment Pact.

Mr President, this joint debate on the broad economic policy guidelines and the European Employment Pact is to be welcomed.

For that reason, we must embark on the practical implementation of the European Employment Pact, which was concluded at Cologne.

In Cologne we therefore want to supplement the stability and growth pact, which we continue to uphold, with a European employment pact.

The Danish Social Democrats have today voted in favour of a report on the European Employment Pact.

We also know that a European Employment Pact does not, at this stage, constitute European employment policy.

The grandiose announcement by Mr Schröder concerning the European Employment Pact was, as usual, premature.

So I welcome the proposal once again to conclude a European employment pact in Cologne, especially after the preliminary discussions during the Austrian Presidency.

We welcome the fact that the European Council, under the German Presidency, has concluded the work on a European Employment Pact.

But it has been possible to continue the debate on some of the key issues facing the Union: the next stage in our employment strategy and a European employment pact.

We know that a European Employment Pact cannot replace national endeavours to create employment, but it can and must co-ordinate, focus and stimulate these endeavours.