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EUROPEAN SOCIAL MODEL: SPIDLA CALLS FOR MORE OPTIMISM, FOSTERING NEW 'FAMILY TIES'.(Vladimir Spidla )

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From: European Report
Date: 20050622
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"The European Social Model is essential to any European democracy", Mr Spidla said in delivering the Lisbon Council's 2005 Jean Jacques Rousseau Lecture, which forms part of an ongoing 'Modernising the European Social Model Initiative' the non-profit pressure group launched last autumn. "If Europe has prospered in the last six decades, it's not in spite of the European social model, but because of it ... and if we were to turn our backs on it we would loose our competitiveness".

In terms of making any concrete new proposals to signal a paradigm shift at EU level on social ...

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