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"Mr President, I too welcome the movement at long last on these dossiers and the work of the rapporteurs involved, and of those who have worked hard to put forward their opinions. Like others I regret the legal base chosen. The arguments are totally unconvincing, in so far as we have actually heard any.
One of the few things we can say about what we have got in front of us is that we have at long last got some sort of parity here with the company statute. That parity of status in a modern economy is extremely important at a time when many people are looking for added value. I do not see that we should actually be advocating or allowing an advantage to one particular form of company organisation while, as it were, putting barriers in the way of a different form of organisation.
It is important that we safeguard cooperatives and their parity of status, particularly at a time of increased competition and threats of globalisation, when there is a considerable threat of undermining the cooperative ethos and its way of operating.
We have heard that this is an important sector, not least in terms of the employment opportunities outlined so ably by Mr Hughes. It is also a question about democracy and participation and the feeling of being in control of either your workplace or indeed the company with which you are dealing.
Cooperatives are particularly important when we are talking so much – or indeed today so little – about corporate social responsibility, when we are looking at companies which have a great deal to teach, at major corporations that already operate across borders, in terms of their responsibility towards staff.
I welcome many of the amendments put forward in terms of employee involvement and greater safeguards there, responsibility towards customers, wider society and indeed, for many of them as well, the investment they make in ethical finance, which again has a lot to teach major corporations."@en1
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