Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-03-13-Speech-1-174"

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dcterms:Date	"2006-03-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Free movement of workers and transition periods (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20060313.22.1-174"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2006-03-13-Speech-1-1752
lpv:speaker	lp:Sophia in 't Veld2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Democraten 66 (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; FEMM (2004-09-03--2007-01-14)3 substitute; LIBE (2004-07-22--2007-01-14)3 member_of_the_bureau; ALDE (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; Temporary Committee on the alleged use of European countries by the CIA for the transport and illegal detention of prisoners (2006-01-19--2007-02-14)3 member; ECON (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3
lpv:translated text	". Mr President, I can totally identify with what the previous speaker said and I would also like to bid Commissioner Frattini good evening for the third time today. There is no need to explain why citizens from the new countries should gain access to the labour market – quite the contrary, in fact. It is the countries that continue to protect their markets that have to explain why they continue to deny fully-paid-up fellow EU citizens their basic rights. It also makes good economic sense, of course, to lift the restrictions. The European economy and the labour market need people. If we, in the European Union and its internal market, want to compete with major markets outside Europe, we will need dynamic, young, well-trained people who are also mobile. That is something to which we have always aspired within the European economy, and so it makes no sense whatsoever to keep the labour markets closed off. Moreover, it is an illusion that these restrictions stop Eastern European workers from coming over here, for they have been around for a long time, even though they are being exploited by fraudulent employers and live in degrading circumstances in our countries – something that I regard as a disgrace. Considerations of civil rights, the economy and solidarity therefore require that the restrictions be lifted. I am pleased, then, that my own county, the Netherlands, will probably do that – at any rate, it appears that a majority is in favour of it – and I should like to urge all Member States, in the year of mobility, to do likewise."@en1

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