Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-11-06-Speech-4-029"

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dcterms:Date	"2003-11-06"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Mid-term Social Policy Agenda Review2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20031106.2.4-029"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-11-06-Speech-4-0302
lpv:speaker	lp:Stephen Hughes2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, the Commission's mid-term review is actually an exercise in marking time. It is full of hot air with very little substance. There are a range of issues outstanding. We now have a three-year delay in the revision of the European Works Council Directive, despite the recent occurrences at Genk and a whole series of earlier problems. There is a blockage in Council on the temporary agency workers directive, a vital part of our effort to balance security and flexibility. We have a very uncertain timetable around the revision of the working time directive and an end to the scandalous abuse of the opt-out in my own country. There is an outstanding call from Parliament for a directive on individual dismissals and the social security aspects of atypical working: no action on those fronts has been taken at all. I also share Mrs Smet's concerns over enlargement, the the application of the particularly in the area of occupational safety and health, the development of social dialogue, open coordination in the European Union as it will be this time next year. All of these things are causing us deep concern and we have seen little, if any, action on all of these important issues. Let me make it clear that we fully understand the pressures and the obstacles being put in the way of Commissioner Diamantopoulou and her efforts to deliver on these important issues. Some of these come from inside the college of Commissioners, some from Council, some involve governments of a socialist complexion. All I can say is that we will redouble our efforts to try to ensure that we support her in overcoming those obstacles and moving the social agenda forward. That is vitally important. Unless we can deliver and move the social agenda forward, there is a very real danger that the overall, carefully-balanced policy mix established at Lisbon will be destroyed. If that happens it will be a major disaster for the future of the whole of the Union."@en1
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