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Mr Juncker, I should first of all like to thank you for your introduction. I would like to wish the Luxembourg Presidency success, and I wish it more wisdom than its Dutch predecessor had, although you have already made a little
with your remark about the Constitution. I urge you to give the public the opportunity to make up their own minds in a fair-minded manner.
My first question to you is a short one. It was six years ago that the euro was introduced. At the time, in 1999, European unemployment stood at 9%, and has remained at that level to this day, while economic growth has slowed down. My question to you is: do you not consider it high time we submitted the euro to a thorough overhaul, in which you, in fact, could take the lead? I regret the absence from your agenda of the continuation of the debate, initiated under the Dutch Presidency, on the control of animal diseases. Had this slipped your mind?
According to your list of priorities, there are many misunderstandings surrounding the services directive. Exactly what kind of misunderstandings do you mean, and who, in your view, is labouring under them? Is it the Commission, Parliament or the thousands of workers who have already voiced their disapproval of this services directive? From your wish to reassess the proposal in a more objective light, as you describe it, can I deduce that you share my view that the services directive is an extremely vague document that my fellow-countryman, Commissioner Bolkestein, should never even have tabled? Does the Luxembourg Presidency have concrete proposals for amending the Commission proposal on the services directive? If not, I would invite you to travel with me through the Netherlands. You would be able to get to know those important public services, such as education and health care, that the directive puts in jeopardy. I could also introduce you to those commercial service providers, including the coffee shop 'De Tevreden Roker' [The Satisfied Smoker] and the 'Picobello Escort Service' club, which would certainly be keen to become active in Luxembourg, or elsewhere for that matter. To my mind, services of that kind are expressions of Dutch culture and thanks to the services directive, we will be able to inflict them on everyone.
You will gather that these last words were meant as a provocation, but I should like to ask you in all seriousness to take me up on my invitation. We may then be able to have the desperately needed debate about the services directive, which seems to be absent in too many crucial places in Europe."@en1
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