Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-05-10-Speech-2-073"

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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	"da"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20050510.4.2-073"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2005-05-10-Speech-2-0742
lpv:speaker	lp:Ole Christensen2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; REGI (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 unknown; Socialdemokratiet (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Romania Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-15--2006-12-31)3 member; PES (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; EMPL (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, if the Lisbon Strategy’s objectives are to be met, the social and employment situation in Europe needs to be improved. The opt-out from the 48-hour week must finally be removed. No country should be exempt from the rules governing working time and thus have a labour market in which employees are exposed to impossible and exhaustingly long working weeks. The opt-out makes no contribution to a social Europe. It opens the way to social dumping, whereby countries can pick and choose which rules they want to follow. That is not the way forward for Europe. We cannot and must not compete in terms of either low wages or long working days. Europe’s populations must feel that the European Union has their interests at heart. All studies clearly show that long working weeks are harmful to both safety and health. A 48-hour working week which had better definitions of working time and recreational time and which called on companies to take account of workers’ family lives, would increase employees’ options. By voting in favour of the committee’s report, we shall show the people of Europe that we want a social and just Europe."@en1

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