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"Mr President, I should like to thank the many demonstrators who, in a dignified manner, today showed their opposition to the Bolkestein Directive. Like the demonstrators, the June Movement wishes to reject the Bolkestein Directive. The compromise between the Socialist Group in the European Parliament and the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats does not alter the crux of the matter. The country of origin principle is being removed but is not being replaced by a clear host country principle. The Posting Directive continues to give low-wage countries the right to undermine our own wages and the Danish model of collective bargaining. Sensitive areas are being removed from the directive, so that it is left to judges to liberalise public services and make them subject to the market. This has already happened within the areas of education, health and social affairs.
The European Court of Justice is directly invited to legislate by means of Amendment 5, which confirms the Court’s principles of non-discrimination, necessity and proportionality. These principles sound good, but the three words reflect the fact that it is the judges in Luxembourg who will decide whether national legislation can be regarded as unlawful if foreign companies are not in practice equally entitled under it to tender for work and to provide services. The June Movement welcomes Polish plumbers and all other foreign workers, but they should be paid non-discriminatory wages, not dumping wages. We wish to see free competition, but it must also be fair, and we therefore propose services regulated by the open coordination method so that our democracies are not turned into unlawful trade barriers by the judges in Luxembourg."@en1
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