Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-02-02-Speech-4-037"
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"Mr President, we are finally making progress – at an absolute snail’s pace, but we are making progress.
If there is one area in which social and fiscal dumping wreaks havoc and in which it is imperative that the legislator steps in, it is road transport. With employees forced to work at a furious pace due to the just-in-time phenomenon, one can rightly talk about a wage of fear. A wage of fear that is all too often an hourly starvation wage, one that compels people to calculate driving times on the basis of distances travelled, without giving a single thought to safety or their health or that of others. I am also thinking of the small businessmen in this sector who live in daily fear of going bankrupt, victims of the criminal dogma of free and undistorted competition, who are very far removed today from the ideals that first led them to become self-employed.
There is only one law, that of transporting a commodity from one point to another, as quickly and as cheaply as possible. The risks do not matter; after all, there is insurance. This law has a name: the law of the jungle. It is high time we acted so that our roads are no longer like the Wild West. Despite the courageous and tenacious efforts of our fellow Member, Mr Markov, I regret the timidity of the final texts. Nevertheless, they do constitute a first step in the right direction.
Some of our fellow Members rant on about big-brother-style surveillance when the use of electronic techniques for the purposes of monitoring compliance with the regulation is mentioned. They call this an attack on individual freedoms. However, it is a question here of protecting lives. Cannot they see that it is the big bosses of European businesses that are the main terrorists, the ones that breach social laws and encourage fiscal and social dumping among our nations, those employers who are directly responsible, on a daily basis, for dozens of fatal accidents on our roads? So yes, let us use all the resources available to us in order to guarantee safety and to enable the European Union to live peacefully."@en1
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