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"Mr President, in my country we have spent more than 100 years developing an efficient labour market. Employees and employers enter into voluntary agreements on wages and working conditions. The idea is that everyone is welcome to work on agreed conditions. We have also developed a Nordic welfare model with social rights for all citizens, financed by high taxes. It has given us a flexible labour market in which it is easy to fire, and still easier to hire, people. Moreover, we are creating more jobs than we are losing through globalisation.
The Commission should therefore say: ‘What we have here is a recipe for social protection, giving us the necessary flexibility. That is what we all need. Let us study this remarkable model.’ Instead, the Commission says: ‘Let us deem the Nordic social welfare model and agreement-based model to be unlawful.’ Mr Mc Creevy, I am not saying that you should adopt our model, but the Commission should understand and respect the fact that we have chosen that model, and we are never going to give it up. Moreover, I would ask Mr Barosso to withdraw his support for the Latvian firm in the Vaxholm case. Thank you, Mr President, even though I have nothing to say thank you for."@en1
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