Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-03-14-Speech-2-151"
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"Mr President, firstly I would like to welcome the Commission's approach in general to the IGC. The fact that we are getting this rolling presentation of more detailed explanations of issues is very helpful. Secondly, I agree with the Commission that this is indeed an extremely delicate issue. Taxation and social security get to what Mrs Thatcher used to call the nooks and crannies of everyday life. It is something that affects Member States and their people in a very sensitive way and we have to be careful before the Community moves into these fields. From what I hear, the Commission has got it more or less right and I would like to put a couple of questions for the sake of clarity.
It is right to say where the Member States have already accepted a Community competence, in other words where we have already passed a measure, then QMV should apply to adjust that measure. That makes absolute sense. What I was not clear about was when he talked about other measures where it was necessary to make the single market work. How will that be defined? It sounds fine but how do you define a measure that is essential to make the single market work? That is a matter of intense debate.
Similarly, the issue of harmonisation against coordination: one man's coordination can be another's harmonisation and we need clear definitions of what is coordination and what is harmonisation if this is to work. I wish him well in this area because it is an area in which we need a breakthrough. But it is not going to be easy to get an agreement and I would like to see the document in detail before passing judgement on what the Commissioner said this afternoon."@en1
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