Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2010-06-15-Speech-2-019"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2010-06-15"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:The organisation of the working time of persons performing mobile road transport activities (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20100615.4.2-019"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2010-06-15-Speech-2-0202
lpv:speaker	lp:Mara Bizzotto2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; PETI (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 member; EMPL (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 member; Conference of Delegation Chairs (2009-09-30--2014-06-30)3 chair; Delegation for relations with Australia and New Zealand (2009-09-30--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Lega Nord (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with Canada (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 substitute; LIBE (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 member; EFD (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, we are planning to extend this directive to self-employed drivers for the sake of a supposed increase in safety. However, the arguments put forward are misleading and will have a detrimental effect. They are misleading because safety is already guaranteed under the 2006 regulation, and detrimental because the competitiveness of thousands of small independent businesses, which have already been sorely tested by the economic crisis, is at risk. Ladies and gentlemen, let us not pretend to be unaware of the fact that the legal and technical disputes regarding the directive actually conceal yet another power struggle between European statists, who are ready to place a new, dangerous burden on businesses, and the supporters of the human face of Europe, who are in touch with our citizens’ real needs. By intervening to legislate on the organisation of self-employed drivers’ working time, Parliament would be setting a dangerous precedent, authorising a European-branded takeover of entrepreneurship and free enterprise. It is time to put our words into practice. Let us stop exploiting small and medium-sized enterprises for our own ends. It is all too easy to praise widespread entrepreneurship when the aim is to come up with effective strategies to combat the crisis, and then to sacrifice these when EU bureaucracy wants to reassert its strength. I oppose the utopian war of principles with practicality. Europe must not encroach on the sphere of private enterprise and must respect the requests of our regions."@en1
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