Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-02-02-Speech-4-033"
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"Mr President, when I first heard that the European Union wanted to tell me how long I could work each week, I finally realised it had lost its collective mind. And here we go again!
These proposed restrictions on the good management of transport businesses make several huge and utterly unjustified assumptions. They assume that business managers do not know how best to organise their businesses and balance customer needs with staff resources. They assume they think it is worth taking risks – criminal risks at that – in overworking tired drivers, and publicity risks if they are found guilty. It assumes that owner-drivers do not know what is in their own best interests.
Over the last half-century, social engineering of this kind has proved beyond doubt that it simply does not work. When will it dawn on you that the European economic mess is precisely because of this kind of interference? This proposal is a sledgehammer to crack a nut and, just like the port services directive, it should be disposed of into the waste bin."@en1
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