Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-02-07-Speech-4-055"
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"Mr President, I have very great respect for the ambitious work which the rapporteur, Mrs Hermange, has put into the report on the scoreboard for implementation of the social policy agenda. However, I am at the same time concerned that the work has led to the request for a long list of legislative initiatives on the part of the Commission, relating for example to lifelong learning, organisation of work, the need to reconcile work and private life, working environment policy, supplementary sickness insurance and the hiring-out of staff.
There are two main reasons why I believe that demands for legislative initiatives within these areas are the wrong road to go down. First of all, we Swedish Conservatives believe that these issues should not be dealt with at Community level. They are best dealt with at national level and, best of all of course, through negotiations at national level.
Secondly, I believe that adding more and more pages of legislation to the thousands upon thousands of pages that the candidate countries are now already required to accept and incorporate into their own legislation would make it considerably more difficult to implement any enlargement of the EU. I therefore agree with what my colleague, Mrs Smet, said about its being important to pause and reflect and to review the legislation that already exists.
We are not being given the opportunity to vote against individual points in the report. We Swedish Conservatives will not be able to support the report as a whole in the final vote, in spite of the fact that there is actually a lot in the report that we think is positive. Unfortunately, the initiatives are, as I said just now, to be taken at the wrong level. They should be taken at national level."@en1
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