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"Mr President, my fellow Member Mr Andersson from the Socialist Group in the European Parliament emphasised just a few minutes ago that Sweden did not introduce any transitional rules when the new Member States entered the European Union. It was good that he said that, as what he was boasting about had in fact been a defeat for him. He and his party had taken the lead in combating freedom of movement and had wanted to introduce transitional rules. They lost, however. As a result, Sweden is the country that now has freedom of movement. He and his party conducted a scare campaign about social tourism. We know the outcome: last year, the social tourism about which Mr Andersson and other Social Democrats were scaring people cost Sweden EUR 18 000. That is almost nothing, but we have acquired a host of people who have been able to contribute tax income and labour to our country. We should be pleased that you lost, for Europe was the winner. This is not about the Services Directive. We are now seeing a scare campaign of the same kind as that we heard a year ago. This is about neither the Services Directive nor Chinese wages. Scaring people by saying that the freedom and opportunity to work in Europe will lead to Chinese wages is a downright piece of insolence directed against our new Member States in Central and Eastern Europe. Nor is it about placing a question mark over Sweden’s collective agreements, for we are not concerned here with the country of origin principle at all. What it is about is people from Europe with collective agreements being able to work in a country in which the laws and rules applicable in that country are also complied with. This is the matter about which you are conducting an outright scare campaign, and one directed not only at the Services Directive but also, ultimately, at our new Member States in Central and Eastern Europe which have made the European Union richer. I can state one thing, namely that we Swedish Conservatives will defend and safeguard our being able in Sweden to make decisions about our labour market and our rules, but we shall also defend openness. To the Socialist Group in the European Parliament, which uses the European Union to legislate on the Swedish labour market or working time directives and ‘sunshine directives’, I want to point out the following:. we will safeguard the Swedish labour market and Swedish freedom, but we will also safeguard the European Union’s freedom."@en1
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