Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-01-17-Speech-2-043"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2006-01-17"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Market access to port services2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20060117.5.2-043"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2006-01-17-Speech-2-0442
lpv:speaker	lp:Jacky Hénin2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Delegation for relations with Belarus (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 unknown; Parti communiste français (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; ITRE (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; EUL/NGL (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; INTA (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the port services directive presented to us for the second time completely overlooks the general interest and the improvement of the living conditions of Europeans. What is worse, it only serves the financial interests of the large transnational freight companies, to the detriment of all the actors in the port sector, from the port worker to the small businessman. Its only aims are those of demolishing the statutes and social protection measures and dragging salaries down in order to make a minority rich, and this to the detriment of people’s safety and the environment. This directive’s social model is as good as the law of the jungle; self-handling is slavery reborn. All the technical-nautical professions and all the European trade unions unanimously reject this Bolkestein-style directive for the ports. Yesterday, I joined the 10 000 port workers from all over Europe in demonstrating before Parliament. I can bear witness to their determination to stand in the way of this monstrous directive. I can assure you that voting in favour of a directive such as this means taking responsibility for many of the Union’s ports being blocked by hard-line strikes, with all the economic consequences that such action entails. I, like others, would point out to the Commission that we, as the representatives of the nations of Europe, had already rejected this directive. To propose another, almost identical, version of it constitutes a political affront to Parliament and to the port authorities as a whole. For the sake of the construction of another Europe seeking a high level of social and democratic integration, we call for this directive to be rejected."@en1

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