Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-03-10-Speech-1-111"
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"Mr President, today dockworkers have demonstrated against this measure outside this Parliament. I had to fight my way through teargas to gain access to the building. As a new Member I thought this was possibly normal practice. There has already been a protest in Brussels and there will, no doubt, be many more.
However, this directive offends not only against workers' expectations but also against the dock companies, which have invested heavily in facilities and infrastructure. These proposed rules are throwing their businesses into turmoil. For this reason we voted against the measure at first reading. Now we see a series of amendments, which typifies the approach of this Parliament: seeking to make slightly better something that is inherently flawed. If this Parliament truly represented the wishes of the people, it would throw this directive out, but it will not. That itself demonstrates what we already know: this Parliament has nothing to do with representing the wishes of the people; it has its own agenda, which has nothing to do with democracy."@en1
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