Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-03-10-Speech-1-113"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-03-10"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Market access to port services2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030310.5.1-113"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-03-10-Speech-1-1142
lpv:speaker	lp:Kathleen Van Brempt2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Committee on Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport (2002-02-05--2003-09-28)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Slovenia Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2003-09-28)3 member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2003-09-28)3 unknown; Socialistische Partij (2000-01-13--2003-09-28)3 member; PES (2000-01-13--2003-09-28)3
lpv:translated text	"Thank you, Mr President. Ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, this afternoon we have seen that our directives do have some effect on the people of Europe. We have, in particular, seen that the dock workers are angry, very angry, and also desperate. Why? Most likely because they are heard too infrequently in this Parliament. More likely, however, because they are coming up against a cold, liberal Europe that subordinates safety, safety at work and health, social matters and jobs to blind liberalisation dogma. They are also angry about the proposal you launched in February 2001, Commissioner, in which you pulled their social charter out from under their feet with one stroke of the pen. It will come as no surprise to you that you are not very popular in Belgium, and I still regret that you did not have the courage to have a direct debate with the dock workers in Antwerp, for example. That could have been enlightening. In Parliament we should have discarded the proposal immediately after the first reading, we should not have amended it. Various colleagues have already told me that it is not what we wanted. So why did we not vote it out? I will continue to fight against this directive, I will vote against it tomorrow and I will continue to do so. Because I still do not understand what its added value is, not even in its amended form, although I do admit that it is much improved. I will tell you why the dock workers are striking, Mr Jarzembowski. They are, of course, striking because if you permit self-handling in another country, you must also permit self-handling in your own country straight away because of the sacred competition rules, and that is the reason why I continue to oppose it. I hope that we will be able to vote the proposal out, but I fear that we will not be able to do so. I am therefore hoping for strong amendments: self-handling out and compulsory licensing in. I found out today that we are better at defending this Parliament with a police force than we are at maintaining the social system in Europe."@en1

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