Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-02-14-Speech-3-232"
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"Mr President, we are all aware, of course, that Mrs Lambert’s report is ill-timed, because it concerns a technical amendment. We know. We all do. However, because it has taken the Council, or Commission, such a long time to pluck up the courage to assess this regulation and to include it on the agenda, this was simply a cry from the heart from people who believe that it should at long last be included on the agenda so as to make it possible to hold a broad, political debate using sound arguments.
Mrs Lambert said that discrimination must be prevented. I could not agree more, and everyone should support this view. However, as Mrs Oomen
Ruijten has already indicated, frontier workers are still being discriminated against, and the Left has no intention of doing anything about this. Do not ask me why. I would urge them too to roll up their sleeves in this area, as these people are still being discriminated against. That is my first point: we are drafting a directive which evidently has a discriminatory effect, especially in terms of frontier workers. Something must be done about this.
There is also another point, which is possibly of even greater importance, namely the future of the Union. We are now addressing the subject of interest at European level, and we are currently controlling the economy centrally, from Brussels. This is to be welcomed. What has not been tackled yet is the mobility of workers, since each Member State has its own wishes and legislation. This will be a threat to the European economy in due course. It is vital that mobility is established.
As far as frontier workers, as well as people on secondment, are concerned, I am of the opinion that they should be given a choice. When I see how journalists who are stationed in Brussels for five years have to return home because they would otherwise have to surrender their pensions, I consider that the European Union is behaving quite outrageously with its legislation. Certainly if this period is reduced to twelve months. I therefore believe that the employed should have far more freedom of choice, leading to a widening and improvement of worker mobility. I believe that a) not discriminating any longer, at any level, represents a positive step forward for us and b) that this will benefit the European economy."@en1
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