4. Insists on the need for extension, modernisation and simplification of social security coordination, by speeding up the revision of Regulation (EEC) No 1408/71; stresses again the need for the Commission to initiate a dialogue with the social partners including those of the candidate countries, to study the possibility of laying down a "European workers" status", a European system of labour law and social security for workers with a permanent degree of mobility;

4. Insists on the need for extension, modernisation and simplification of social security coordination, by speeding up the revision of Regulation 1408/71; stresses again the need for the Commission to initiate a dialogue with the social partners including those of the candidate countries, to study the possibility of laying down a “European workers’ status”, a European system of labour law and social security for workers with a permanent degree of mobility;

The contribution of the social dialogue to the success of the economic and social modernisation strategy launched in Lisbon is crucial.

In terms of substance, I think the legal framework has created an environmental framework for the operation of a market economy with a socialist orientation and for building a rule of law in socialism, a rule-of-law state for the people, by the people.

We feel as practitioners that this is perhaps one of the most technical and complex sections in the Criminal Code and an area of law and social practice and social policy so fundamental that it crosses all boundaries or borders, political, provincial, and otherwise, and that it is an area that deserves careful, serious study and analysis before we start making significant changes.

33. Expects a stronger commitment from the EU in the Maghreb and Mashreq countries to supporting the process of economic and social modernisation, with a special emphasis on the social impact of those processes; considers that that commitment should have built into it a comprehensive social dialogue, including a dialogue of religions, so as to create a common region of stability and peace; recommends that troika contacts be stepped up with Algeria to foster a process of political reform and political dialogue encompassing all Algerians, in the interest of enhancing democracy, the rule of law and tolerance, and takes the view that the o ...[+++]utcome of the ongoing negotiations on an association agreement must be made conditional on a peaceful solution to the internal crisis; insists, furthermore, that the European Union should cooperate actively in settling the conflict in Western Sahara in accordance with the United Nations resolutions, along the lines requested by the European Parliament in its resolution of 16 March 2000 and the Statement by the German presidency of the Council of June 1999;