Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-04-04-Speech-2-184"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2006-04-04"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Amended proposal for a directive on services in the internal market and Communication on Directive 96/71/EC (posting of workers in the framework of the provision of services) (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20060404.21.2-184"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2006-04-04-Speech-2-1852
lpv:speaker	lp:Robert Goebbels2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Parti ouvrier socialiste luxembourgeois (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; CONT (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; Delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia and the South Asia Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 member; ECON (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 substitute; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 substitute; INTA (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 vice-chair; PES (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioners, ladies and gentlemen, during the first debate on the Services Directive, a British Member said: ‘Fritz Bolkestein is well and alive and living mainly in France’. My group wishes the former Commissioner, Mr Bolkestein, a very happy retirement. Indeed, we hope that he will have a peaceful retirement, but his directive is well and truly dead. Henceforth, we shall have a Gebhardt – McCreevy directive. There are still, of course, the Bolkestein orphans. On the extreme left and among certain well-known anti-Europeans, the Bolkestein Directive had become an obvious bogeyman, the symbol of an anti-social Europe. These people have difficulty in accepting that the Bolkestein Directive is definitively dead and buried. Others have the same problem, notably some enthusiasts of ultraliberalism, and here I am thinking of those who saw in the Commission’s original proposal a sort of master key providing access to a totally deregulated Europe. I am thinking in particular of that French baron who tries to look modern by speaking American when he is speaking on behalf of big employers. Happily, though, the European Parliament has done its job, and a qualified majority of Parliament has rewritten the text that was submitted at first reading on the Commission’s original proposal in order to make it a respectable instrument that encourages the free provision of services, while avoiding any form of social dumping. The Commission has done well to broadly support the European Parliament’s position, even if we did observe a bit of shillyshallying last week. President Barroso has taken his troops in hand. We shall, of course, have to remain vigilant and we shall have to request some further information. Nonetheless, the Austrian Presidency would likewise do well to ensure that the Council supports Parliament so that we may quickly arrive at the proper Services Directive that we hope and pray for."@en1

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