Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-05-10-Speech-2-050"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2005-05-10"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Organisation of working time2
dcterms:Language	"da"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20050510.4.2-050"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2005-05-10-Speech-2-0512
lpv:speaker	lp:Mogens Camre2
lpv:spokenAs	member; EMPL (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 substitute; SEDE (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 member; CONT (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 unknown; Dansk Folkeparti (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 vice-chair; UEN (2004-07-20--2007-07-19)3 substitute; AFCO (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Chile Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, this proposed change to the Working Time Directive is just as absurd a piece of EU regulation as the directive it is designed to amend. It amounts to misplaced interference in the conditions of the labour market, and it is not surprising that the two sides of industry have rejected the directive. The conditions to which the directive relates differ widely across the 25 Member States and, no matter what positive things are inserted in the directive about the protection of employees and private life, it is and remains an expression of the EU’s obsession with regulation. The European Parliament clearly wants to see low growth. In my country, which without doubt has the EU’s highest standard of worker protection, these conditions are agreed between the two sides of industry. This has produced good results. Firstly, we have a larger proportion of the population of working age in the labour market than any other EU country. We do not have the strikes we see again and again in Belgium and France. We have a level of unemployment only half that of the eurozone, and we have the EU’s second highest gross national product per inhabitant. It is incredible that we should have to put up with a situation in which the EU, which has not been able to solve these problems nearly so well as ourselves, is to tell us what to do. People would do better to come to Denmark, see the way to do things and then go home and work out, on a national basis, what they might do in terms of their own circumstances. It is quite impossible to assess how hard a nation works by looking at the length of its working time. What are crucial are methods of organisation, the training of the labour force and degrees of efficiency. In Denmark, people work efficiently, so the country can manage with shorter working hours. Foreigners should not interfere in these conditions, and I recommend voting against this directive."@en1

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