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". Mr President, Mrs Herczog’s report contains a whole list of very wise observations. Europe needs sweeping change, and in particular it needs to build a genuinely common market for labour and services. At present, this market remains closed to a great many Europeans. If Europe fails to remedy the situation it will suffer in terms of global competitiveness. If we are honest with ourselves, I think most of us have now lost count of the number of times we have heard statements of this sort. Citizens of the new Member States of the Union are only entitled to work in three countries of the old Fifteen. The overwhelming majority of the Union’s Member States still does not believe that cheaper labour and cheaper, more competitive, services are good for the economy, or that they will reinvigorate it, thus generating growth in both employment and income. The more national protection of national markets of labour and services there is, the more jobs and services will be delocalised beyond the Union’s borders. They will move to Delhi and Beijing rather than to Warsaw or Budapest. We need more action and fewer words. The first test of our real intentions will come on Thursday, when we vote on the Services Directive. This will be an opportunity for us to demonstrate whether we want a genuinely free common market or whether we will be content with a cheap sham and with empty words, blaming an evil and callous outside world which is fast leaving us behind."@en1

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