Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-12-15-Speech-1-078"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-12-15"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Takeover bids2
dcterms:Language	"de"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20031215.7.1-078"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-12-15-Speech-1-0792
lpv:speaker	lp:Evelyne Gebhardt2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3,3 unknown; Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3,3 member; Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3,3 member; Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3,3 member; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3,3
lpv:translated text	"Thank you, Mr President. I honestly did not know that there were 275 German MEPs in this House. That is how many Members rejected the results of the first conciliation procedure. Ladies and gentlemen, when we consider Europe as a social community and as an example to others, workers’ rights have an important part to play. It was because they were not sufficiently taken into account that the first takeover directive failed in this House, when the plenary rejected as inadequate what had come out of the conciliation as having been agreed with the Council. It was clear to us that decisions concerning an enterprise’s continued existence could not be left to the shareholders alone, but that the people who were employed by it had, at the very outset, to be informed and enabled to influence events. After all, when an enterprise is taken over, it is not just power and a great deal of money that are at stake, but also the fate of many people. Issues of the enterprise’s location and the security of jobs are also involved. That is why the people affected must be asked their opinion and involved in what happens. Today sees us making a new start on the takeover directive, and the rapporteur would like us to be able to manage with just one reading. At an early stage, we in the Group of the Party of European Socialists have promised him our support, albeit subject to the condition that a satisfactory solution must be found to the issue of workers’ rights. He has promised that it will be, but I – like everyone else who thought there would be a good solution – am surprised to find a takeover directive that is not one whit better than the first one. Faced with such an impertinence, we will not be waving this directive through into a fast-track procedure until the workers’ rights issue has been sorted out in a manner favourable to them."@en1

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