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"Mr President, by setting out requirements for lower wages, the Commission has undermined the negotiating right of the social partners and both directly and indirectly affected wage formation, which is explicitly excluded from the Commission’s sphere of competence. This is nothing less than a frontal assault on the social partners’ influence and is contrary to the Charter of Fundamental Rights, which includes the right to enter into collective agreements.
This is not an isolated incident restricted to Ireland, either, but is being repeated time and time again. By talking about ‘unit labour cost’ instead of wages, the Commission is attempting to circumvent the limits established by the Treaty. The European Commission has quite simply redrawn the map. It has drawn up a new map and a new set of regulations in which the Member States and the social partners now have their tasks taken away from them and, contrary to all regulations, find themselves dictated to. This is what the dispute is about and it has only just begun.
By acting in this way, the EU is moving ever further away from a democratic basis and legitimacy, which, in other contexts, are usually the keywords when we discuss the future of the EU. We hear that there are some troublemakers – including in this Parliament – who are already starting to fish in these troubled waters. This is surely not what it is all about."@en1
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