Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-10-25-Speech-2-028"
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"Mr President, what we have heard here this morning is, regrettably, vintage McCreevy. Commissioner, you have to recognise that vintage McCreevy does not work at European level. You have to build consensus here or you fail.
Commissioner, you have done it again: having given the Commission the ‘two fingers’ when you were an Irish minister, you have now outraged the Swedish population with a similar gesture towards their social partnership model as well as the European Parliament today. You will not achieve market reform with those bulldozer tactics. The Celtic Tiger, for which you claim credit in Ireland, has given us 150 000 children living in poverty in Ireland. A man died last week because he could not have simple surgery in our hospital system.
Sweden spends EUR 200 per person as a proportion of GDP, compared to EUR 100 in Ireland, yet Sweden is the third most competitive economy in the world, compared to Ireland’s position at 26th. We need a high-quality European social model which uses social infrastructure as a building block for a prosperous and fair society. Setting Latvian workers against Swedish workers will destroy the Union, Commissioner. That is the nub of the debate on the deeply flawed Services Directive. Take note or fail."@en1
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