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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen. I also welcome onto the platform some representatives of the dock workers who have got in. Today I feel a bit like I am in the Middle Ages, in a fortified castle. What can I add in a minute? So much has been said already, but this afternoon I had another meeting with some of the people from the dock workers’ unions, and I was impressed by their message. This directive brings ports of convenience closer. This directive organises social competition between the European ports which will result in social dumping and also, in time, the destruction of the dock workers’ charter as we know it in Belgium. Nobody is asking for this. Europe is apparently the crowbar used to tackle problems in some countries. Allowing self-handling without a prior compulsory licence has other negative consequences, as has already been mentioned here: a lack of safety and problems with environmental disasters at sea. That is all we need. My group and I are therefore voting against self-handling and in favour of the social protection of dock workers, and I hope that some socially aware fellow members of the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats will follow suit."@en1
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