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European Commissioner for Employment calls a fair and sequenced fiscal consolidation.
Brussels, July 9 .- The European Commissioner for Employment and Social Affairs, Laszlo Andor has recommended today to the Twenty-seven States of the European Union (EU) carrying out fiscal consolidation in a "fair and sequenced, to prevent This has an excessive impact on vulnerable social groups.
Andor asked Member States to "take into account" social goals scored within the economic strategy, aika gold, for the next decade, facing the "inevitable" fiscal consolidation will have to implement to address the current economic situation in a wheel news conference in Brussels today.
"We should not hurry with the fiscal consolidation, this has to be carefully temporalized and sequenced", affirmed the commissioner after attending an informal meeting of Ministers of Employment and Social Affairs of the EU.
When adjusting, sto credits, public spending, "not only can we cut, we also have to look at the revenues, and apply the principle of justice," said Andor.
In particular, the Commissioner called on governments "to take into account the ability of different social groups in sharing the burden of the crisis economica, to prevent this" becomes a social crisis. "
Countries "must share, aion kinah kaufen, the priority of protecting vulnerable groups, and make efforts" to save the social protection systems of the impact of fiscal consolidation, "he added.
In this sense, the Belgian Minister of Social Affairs, Laurette Onkelinx, stressed that all European ministers at the meeting spoke of "the dramatic potential impact of the crisis on unemployment, job insecurity and poverty."
To analyze the particular situation of each Member State, the ministers discussed the implementation of "common indicators" that reflect the level of social protection.
Also, Andor highlight the need for Member States to tackle "a coordinated way to reform their pension systems.
Open to public consultation this week by the EC, the Commission concluded "initiated large-scale debate among all stakeholders in all Member States."
The reform of pension systems is a very complex issue that we must take into account the diversity of the Twenty-seven, but there are common challenges, and if we cooperate and face together find a better solution, "concluded Andor.