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"Mr President, Commissioner McCreevy, you have made a frontal attack on the Swedish right to strike, which is protected by the Swedish Constitution. You maintain that you accept the Nordic model’s collective agreements but, at the same time, you wish to undermine them with your legislation. You must realise that our legislative objective is to protect each worker against unfair working conditions, not Swedish workers against Latvian workers.
You are making the most common mistake of all among EU politicians. You believe that something that worked in your own country for a certain period – your one-sided policy on growth and the internal market, through which Irish finance ministers succeeded for a time in reducing unemployment and increasing income – has to operate in the EU for evermore. That policy depended, however, on certain temporary, national and accidental circumstances. Progress was made not because of, but in spite of, deficient social protection.
In Sweden, we have managed to make some tough adjustments because of the security provided to us by forms of social protection. The Nordic model too is based, however, on unique basic conditions that cannot be exported to the EU as a whole with the help of legislation. The right thing is to learn from each other but to allow the legislation to permit adjustments according to the basic conditions that prevail in each region. Otherwise, we shall end up with a centrally administered form of ‘eurosclerosis’.
The EU is like a football team. As coach, you see that you have a good player in Zlatan Ibrahimovic, so you come to the conclusion that all players should wear shoes his size and that you need to have 11 attackers in your team. With tactics like that, our football team would lose against both India and China. Instead, you need to see each player’s potential for development and what each can give to the team and to do so without crushing players’ individual creativity as long as they follow the basic rules of the game. Only then will there be a chance of winning the World Cup."@en1
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