Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-05-10-Speech-2-065"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2005-05-10"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Organisation of working time2
dcterms:Language	"sv"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20050510.4.2-065"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2005-05-10-Speech-2-0662
lpv:speaker	lp:Anna Ibrisagic2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; EMPL (2004-07-22--2007-01-14)3 unknown; Moderata Samlingspartiet (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Bulgaria Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-15--2006-12-31)3 member; SEDE (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Croatia Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 substitute; FEMM (2004-09-13--2006-01-10)3 member; AFET (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; EPP-ED (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, it is good that we have now been given the opportunity to revise the Working Time Directive. My main focus in the course of this work is to ensure that it is made easier for the Member States to create new jobs. It is therefore important that flexible solutions be provided and that there is a reduction in detailed regulation and central control by the EU. Issues relating to working time should, in the first place, be the responsibility of the Member States, each of which should therefore have broad scope for finding its own solution. Industries too operate differently, and as individuals we also have different needs and desires regarding our working hours. Issues of working time are an area in which national practice should apply and not matters that should be decided on by the EU. Unfortunately, there are powerful forces in this Parliament which wish to move in the opposite direction. They want to curtail the Member States’ ability to adjust things to their own traditions and needs. A single model has to apply for the whole of Europe, meaning that they want to introduce supranationalism where issues of working time are concerned. They do not want to allow the Member States to be different from one another and are content for all Europeans to want exactly the same things in terms of organising their working time. Unlike those people, I believe that what is most important in Europe today is to lay sound foundations for creating new jobs. Unlike them, I have faith that people themselves have a better idea than politicians of what best suits them. As with so many other issues, it is not the case that one solution is best for everyone. We are different, and therein lie the charm and the strength of the EU. We consist of different states with different cultures and traditions. I want to give each European country the opportunity to retain its distinctive features and to give the Member States the power to decide about the issue of working time. It is not an issue to be regulated in detail at EU level."@en1

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