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"Mr President, in light of the fact that the words ‘too little too late’ have already been uttered many times when assessing the social package, I shall give my assessment: the mountain has given birth to a mouse. My question is: ‘what have you been doing for four years?’ You have been putting forward socially unacceptable proposals, the culmination being the Working Time Directive so highly vaunted by the Council and the Commission. As a result, there is no option but to regard the proposed social package, despite some of its positive aspects, as propaganda aimed at attaching the label ‘social’ to the European Commission’s letterhead. Most of the proposals need not be discussed at all, so it is nothing more than a flash in the pan. It is quite easy to proclaim that the common market is for the people and not the people for the market and that, if binding rules are to be laid down on the behaviour of companies in the market, then it is necessary to lay down minimum rules on the position of EU employees, a minimum wage set as a percentage of the average wage in all Member States, the same treatment and the same wages for employees working in countries other than their own. It is enough to declare that the Union upholds observance of the International Labour Organization conventions on maximum working time, freedom of trade union association and collective bargaining.
Competition between Member States as to who has the lowest taxes and wages and the least transparency in the position of trade unions will happily continue and the open method of coordination is just another ineffective way of dealing with something that nobody wants to do. To those who criticise the French Presidency, I should like to say: ‘Wait until the Czech Presidency. You ain’t seen nothing yet.’ A few weeks ago, the President vetoed an act prohibiting discrimination, saying it was superfluous."@en1
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