Translation of "Interlink Model " (English → French) :

I. whereas growth, prosperity, jobs and maintaining the European social model are all interlinked and underpin each other,

As the meeting agenda was fairly extensive, the first part focused on the main challenges facing Europe in an uncertain climate. As mentioned by group president Mario Sepi in the introduction to his speech, this uncertainty results from unfamiliarity with the new Commission's programme, an unpredictable ratification process for the Constitutional Treaty and even the degeneration of industrial relations in many countries, caused by employers' erosion of workers' entitlements, often with the complicity of the State. Mr Sepi emphasised that these aspects were interlinked, because "the choices made for relaunching the Lisbon Strategy will ce ...[+++]rtainly have an impact on the way Europe is seen by the millions of citizens called to vote on the constitution". Mr Sepi concluded his speech by recalling the three main priorities for the future of Europe and its model: the mid-term review of the Lisbon Strategy "striking a balance with each side of its equilateral triangle, that is, the economic, social and environmental aspects"; the Stability and Growth Pact, "which must be reviewed not only in terms of economic flexibility but also in terms of quality of expenditure"; the EU's financial perspectives, which must (as G. Dassis' opinion made clear) take account of the cohesion objectives if we are to determine the financial resources needed to realise our ambitions.

Possible approaches for advancing in this area include, inter alia, the development of an EU model tax treaty or the conclusion of a multilateral tax treaty between all EU Member States Moreover, it is noteworthy that many of the targeted measures are to some extent interlinked. This could have repercussions for Member States' double-taxation treaties.

5. Calls on the Commission and Council to treat the three fundamental objectives of pension policy coordination as three objectives of equal value which are closely interlinked and interdependent; calls on the Commission to take account of this in drawing up the relevant reports, particularly the Economic Guidelines and the Employment Guidelines, the recommendations on this topic to the Member States, and the annual summary report for the European Spring Summit to ensure that all the processes are consistent with and complementary to the sustainability and modernisation of the European social model ...[+++];

Everything is interlinked. If we can shortly make the accession of ten new Members just as successful as the previous enlargement incorporating southern Europe, then we will have established a model, a proven method with which we can also bridge the North-South divide, the biggest conflict of our time.

*** *** *** - 9 - Table 2 Macroeconomic consequences of the completion of the EC internal market when accompanied by economic policy measures ________________________________________________________________ | Macro-economic consequences on : | ______________________________________________ | gdp Consumer Employ Public External | as prices ment (in Budget Balance | % as % millions) balance | (as % point of gdp) ________________|________________________________________________ Unaided by | accompanying | economic | policy | measures | 4.5 6.1 1.8 2.2 1.0 | With | accompanying | economic | policy | measures | 7.0 4.3 5.0 0.4 - O.2 ________________|_______________________________________________ Margin of error| +/- 30 % ________________|______ ...[+++]_________________________________________ Source: Simulations conducted by the Commission's services on the HERMES and INTERLINK models.