Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-01-15-Speech-3-141"
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"We have our reservations about the content of Mr Mantovani’s report
We support the amendment by the Group of the European Liberal, Democrat and Reform Party, advocating a method of cooperation instead of the open coordination method. We are opposed to devising common standards for the monitoring of health and health care strategies and to devising common development strategies for health and health care services within the area concerned.
As Swedish Liberals, we view European integration as an opportunity to find solutions to cross-border problems, such as those relating to the environment, trade, movement across borders, human rights and conflict management.
We also believe in the principle of subsidiarity, whereby decisions are to be made as close as possible to those they affect. It needs to be clear to everyone that the EU must only deal with those issues it is best placed to deal with, namely cross-border issues. All other issues should be dealt with at local, regional or national levels.
Health care and care for the elderly are examples of areas in which the EU should only have limited competence. Each Member State should have full responsibility for deciding for itself about these issues, as well as the right to do so, for these are clear examples of areas not of an obviously cross-border nature.
Health care and care for the elderly are issues that have traditionally occupied prominent places on our Liberal agenda."@en1
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