Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-10-02-Speech-1-025"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-10-02"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Presidency communication on the situation in the Middle East2
dcterms:Language	"da"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20001002.3.1-025"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-10-02-Speech-1-0262
lpv:speaker	lp:Ulla Margrethe Sandbæk2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; EMPL (2000-03-07--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on Development and Cooperation (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) (1999-09-14--2002-01-14)3 unknown; JuniBevægelsen (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; EDD (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, in a comment on the Danish ‘no’ vote on the euro, you expressed the view that the ‘no’ side had appealed to an irrational fear. If you had been better informed, you would have known that your description applies to only approximately 20% of Danes who voted ‘no’, and then only on a rough estimate. For the overwhelming majority of those who voted ‘no’, the vote was about democratic legitimacy to make decisions concerning our economic policy. There was a specific desire to avoid a situation in which important decisions are taken on as uninformed a basis as that unfortunately underlying your own pronouncement. The Danish people want a far clearer demarcation line between what the EU is to concern itself with and what the national parliaments are to continue to decide on. As early as December in Nice, however, majority decision-making is to be introduced in the social and labour-market spheres, as referred to in Articles 42 and 137. If, subsequently – and with Article 42 as a basis – the circle of people covered by Regulation No 1408 is enlarged, and if majority voting is introduced under Article 137 on, for example, the criteria for granting unemployment benefit, this would have major consequences for both social and labour-market policy in Denmark. We are the only EU country which finances its social contributions through taxation, and we regulate our labour market through agreements. That is simply the basis for the way in which we have organised ourselves. One reason for the ‘no’ vote on the euro is that we want the Danish Parliament to retain the power of decision-making in these areas and that we also want it to continue to do so after Nice."@en1

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