I realise that social benefits have to be paid for out of taxation and that a limit is imposed by the sluggishness of our economy.
He also said (if my note is correct) that unemployment was due to sluggishness in output.
Experience has shown that the compartmentisation and sluggishness of the labour market are sources of inflationary grains and checks upon growth.
I could argue the point about sluggishness of output.
In response to this sluggishness and bureaucratic inefficiency, the rapporteur proposes amending the multiannual framework in a minimum number of areas.
We have therefore witnessed a complete change from the sluggishness of the decision-making process for which, with good reason, we are often blamed.
The question that presents itself is whether we want to stand out as a bastion of sluggishness and misplaced national self-satisfaction.
But administrative sluggishness and the lack of sufficient political will have prevented these commitments being used by their principal beneficiaries.
