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There is no such thing as free regulation.
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Regulation
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This call for a new culture is not a new idea.
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New Idea
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From my time in Health I know that choice empowers people lives.
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My Time
Empowers
Health Time People
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Primary care must never be seen simply as a set of organisational structures.
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If we took Chaucer's writings at face value, we'd have to conclude he was a complete drip.
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Chaucer
Face Value
Complete
Conclude
Drip
Writings
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As Tony Blair has made clear, our fundamental challenge is how to make Europe work better.
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Europe
Fundamental
Tony
Tony Blair
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For many Europeans the next decade looks to be filled with threats rather than opportunities.
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Decade
Europeans
Opportunities
Threats
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More than 50% of significant new regulations that impact on business in the UK now emanate from the EU.
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Emanate
Impact
Significant
Eu
Regulations
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Road testing the effects of regulation on European business must become second nature to the European Union.
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Effects
European Union
Regulation
Union
Second Nature
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Western Europe GDP per capita - not taking into account the new accession counties - was lower in 2001 relative to that of the US than any time since the 1960's.
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Europe
Gdp
Relative
Western
Western Europe
Account
Counties
Per
Lower
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But effective regulation at the European Union level can make a massive contribution to achieving our shared goals of improving competitiveness, jobs and growth.
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Jobs
Competitiveness
Contribution
European Union
Growth
Improving
Massive
Regulation
Achieving
Effective
European
Level
Union
Shared
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Yet in order to make sure the European social model keeps up with the pace of economic change that is now necessary, the EU must embrace a new approach to lawmaking.
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Economic
Embrace
New Approach
Pace
Change Must New
Eu
Model
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Some people argue that we should limit choice in favour of good local services. My response is simple: why should we assume those two concepts are mutually exclusive?
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Concepts
Exclusive
Favour
Response
Good Simple People
Argue
Assume
Limit
Local
Mutually
Mutually Exclusive
Services
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And, in the past, it has been all too easy for legislators to load costs onto business in order to meet broader social goals. And costs for business means costs for consumers.
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Business
Easy
Legislators
Load
Order
Social
Broader
In The Past
Meet
Onto
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But we need to show that the EU can modernise itself, can adapt to the needs of its citizens, can take their views into account. That will be our ambition for the UK Presidency.
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Ambition
Citizens
Presidency
Views
Account
Adapt
Eu
Modernise
Uk
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So that we focus not on competing visions for Europe but on what Europe can do to improve economic growth, to give us a cleaner environment, to create more jobs, to make us more secure.
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Competing
Economic Growth
Growth
Secure
Cleaner
Visions
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Advances in technology and in our understanding of illness and disease together with an expanded workforce and greater resources will allow us to provide more services to a higher quality.
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Quality
Disease
Greater
Higher
Illness
Resources
Understanding
Workforce
Advances
Allow
Higher Quality
Provide
Services
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My view is that targets, properly constructed and applied across public services have been fundamental to past successes and will be an essential part of sustaining progress into the future.
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Sustaining
Applied
Constructed
Essential
Fundamental
Properly
Services
Successes
Targets
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We must seek to persuade member states and institutions that better regulation in Europe does not mean cutting health and safety in the workplace, nor does it mean dismantling social standards.
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Cutting
Regulation
Safety
Standards
Workplace
Dismantling
Seek
Member
Nor
Persuade
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Greater personal choice, individually tailored services, stronger local accountability, greater efficiency - these are all central to the new direction of travel we have set for our public services.
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Accountability
Efficiency
Personal Choice
Stronger
Tailored
Central
Direction
Individually
Local
New Direction
Services
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The challenge to our national economies and the collective economy of Europe will become - with the growth of China and the continuing productivity growth of the US - even more intense in the decades to come.
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China
Continuing
Decades
Growth
Intense
Productivity
Collective
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Having decisions made not in midnight deals but in the light of objective evidence and after consulting those who will be affected should itself provide some reassurance that the EU is trying to reform itself.
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Consulting
Deals
Evidence
Light
Midnight
Reassurance
Reform
Decisions
Eu
Objective
Provide
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At the heart of these challenges lies the question of how the institutions of the European Union make laws, the types of laws they pass and the effectiveness with which those laws are implemented on civil society and the economy.
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Civil Society
Economy
European Union
Civil
Implemented
Lies
Pass
Union
Question
Types
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But let no one be under any doubt that the scale of the challenge that Europe faces in this emerging global economy is immense and the practical pace of our collective action to meet these challenge to date has just been too slow.
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Doubt
Economy
Emerging
Faces
Global Economy
Immense
Pace
Scale
Date
Challenge
Collective
Global
Practical
Slow
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Here in the UK the government has decided to accept the recommendations of the Better Regulation Task Force to measure and make targeted reductions in the administrative costs - the red tape costs - that regulations impose on business.
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Administrative
Decided
Force
Recommendations
Red Tape
Regulation
Tape
Accept
Impose
Measure
Reductions
Task Force
Uk
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But we can turn challenges into opportunities if we look outwards to the realities of the global economy and modernise our internal institutions in ways that will equip Europe to meet that challenge and create confidence amongst the public.
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Confidence
Economy
Europe
Global Economy
Institutions
Will
Amongst
Challenge
Public
Create
Equip
Look
Global
Internal
Meet
Modernise
Opportunities
Realities
Turn
Ways
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Our aim, during our Presidency in the next six months will be to lead this challenge, to show that Europe can function in a mature and responsible way, to start delivering tangible results that show we are taking people's concerns seriously.
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Aim
Delivering
Europe
Function
Mature
Months
Presidency
Six
Tangible
Start People Will
Challenge
Concerns
Lead
Responsible Way
Seriously
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Our objective must therefore be to ensure EU better regulation contributes towards delivering a modern European Union which relentlessly focuses on building a dynamic and innovative economy equipped to meet the challenges of the 21st century.
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Century
Delivering
European Union
Innovative
Regulation
Relentlessly
Dynamic
Ensure
Equipped
Eu
Towards
Objective
Union
Therefore
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For too long nurses have been undervalued, restricted in what they could do, with too few career opportunities in clinical practice. For far too long, nurses have endured a pay system that has held them back - both professionally as well as financially.
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Medical
Practice
Undervalued
Clinical
Endured
Financially
Held
Nurses
Opportunities
Professionally
Restricted
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It is also right that we continue to consult with front line workers and the public to ensure that targets are reasonable and achievable, that measurement regimes are proportionate and that the targets take full account of the other reforms that are under way.
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Achieve
Measurement
Reasonable
Regimes
Workers
Account
Consult
Ensure
Front
Front Line
Reforms
Targets
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The Civil Service is a vital economic asset to the UK - firstly, in the way it creates a framework for excellence in service delivery and secondly, in how it helps organise the best way to deliver modern public services on which both businesses and individuals depend.
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Best Way
Civil Service
Economic
Excellence
Framework
Modern
Asset
Both
Businesses
Civil
Public
Creates
Deliver
Depend
Firstly
Helps
Individuals
Organise
Secondly
Service
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Vital
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