I believe that geographical and occupational mobility is a crucial instrument for the success of the Revised Lisbon Strategy.

This is being used to increase our understanding of real earnings, with special emphasis on regional variations, and the geographical and occupational mobility of wage earners.

For instance, increasing geographical and occupational mobility enabled men more easily to abandon women they had seduced, while traditional premarital sexual experiences were more precarious in the light of unstable employment possibilities.

The EURES network is presented as a possible European labour market communication platform, that is, as a factor which could help to encourage workers' geographical and occupational mobility.

Geographical and occupational mobility is a crucial instrument for the success of the Revised Lisbon Strategy and more generally for the proper operation of the internal market on the basis of the social market economy.

Nevertheless, its overall responsibility to increase the geographical and occupational mobility of labour within the Community has meant that in practice, a lot of its funds have been channelled towards the relatively less prosperous areas, and to Italy in particular.

Without the EURES network, geographical and occupational mobility in Europe would not be possible to the extent that it is today and would not be available to workers who know their rights and are therefore able to exercise them.

In this regard, I consider that the European Commission should promote further the geographical and occupational mobility of workers through the increased budget line for 2007 in order to support projects in the area of transnational recruitment and cross-border partnerships.

The aim of the European Social Fund (ESF) is to promote employment opportunities and geographical and occupational mobility for workers in the European Union, and to facilitate industrial change and changes in production systems.

I voted in favour of the motion for a resolution by the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs, in which it says that the European Employment Services (EURES) network should become an important European labour market communication platform and a one-stop shop for workers' geographical and occupational mobility.