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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, what we have heard here today and what we saw in the streets of Strasbourg yesterday, naturally gives us a sense of
. It should not, of course, have come to this, had the Commission had the wisdom two years ago to quietly bury its catastrophic port directive.
For years, it has been evident that in the general public opinion and in the European ports in particular, there is no democratic support for this anti-social and ideological package of measures that has not been inspired by political common sense. Even a young child would know that this – what has now become notorious – self-handling leads to unemployment, social unrest and unsafe situations in the ports.
Nevertheless, the Commission went ahead. Based on purely doctrinarian considerations, a proposal is now being put before us virtually identical to that rejected by a majority in this Parliament two years ago, without much respect for this Parliament, against their better judgement, and against the will of the large majority of European dockworkers. The same applies, to some extent, to the Bolkestein directive.
It should come as no surprise that the citizens in France and the Netherlands, as others will do elsewhere tomorrow, turn their backs on this kind of Europe. The Commission could not be more blind to the social reality in the Member States, or further removed from the citizens in their suffering."@en1
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