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Honourable Members, many of the risks of AI also spill over into our social market economy.

For some, AI allows them to speed up repetitive tasks to make better use of their skills.

Clearly, these benefits are unevenly spread between skill sets, generations and regions.

Look just at young people and the barriers they are facing just to get on the first rung of employment.

Our response must keep pace, from education to employment.

AI must help develop skills, improve the quality of jobs and give workers a fair chance,

and this is why we need our Quality Jobs Act, and we will deliver before the end of the year.

Honourable Members, next year we will celebrate the 10th anniversary of our European Pillar of Social Rights. We will keep delivering on its promise.

We will invest in our regions, so everyone has the right to stay.

We will launch a European care deal to address the challenges linked to our demographic changes.

We have just proposed the first ever housing Act to tackle short term rentals and housing speculation. Because, honorable Members, staying in the region.

Is not a privilege, care is not a privilege, housing is not a privilege,

they are rights and we have to give them to our Europeans.

Honourable Members, when we proclaimed this pillar of social rights 10 years ago, the world was different.

Our society has changed in many ways for the better, in others not. Today our fundamental values are being challenged.

Some people even want to backslide on women's rights.

They want to send us back in an age where women were second class citizens.

We have fought so hard for equal treatment, equal opportunities, equal pay. Look around this room.

Finally, there are many of us here Presidents, Vice Presidents, group leaders, Commissioners, Members of the European Parliament,

staffers and ushers, so let me send a very clear signal and message women are here to stay. We will defend our rights.

We will continue to stand up for our values every single day.

This is why, together with my dear friend António Costa. We will host a summit.

To uphold the enduring principles of our social pillar. Times may change, technologies may change.

But our values do not. In Europe, people will always come first.