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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, there is no goal to which Europe’s political forces commit themselves with greater determination than that of making our continent more competitive and thereby reducing mass unemployment. It follows that doing something for those people who have no work is a credible and respectable thing for us to do.
This week will see us voting on the Services Directive, which may well, when transposed, bring 600 000 new jobs, 100 000 of them in Germany, my own country, providing that it is adopted in the form that has emerged from the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection. There is now no more than an infinitesimal prospect of this actually happening, since the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats has caved in and the Socialist Group in the European Parliament has got its way right down the line.
That has had no impact on the trade unions, who are continuing to spread untruths and panic. We expect, tomorrow, the arrival of 30 000 well-organised, well-fed and well-clothed people, who will be demonstrating against the creation of 600 000 jobs. Those who have work are fighting to keep it for themselves; that is immoral and unacceptable. It is for us to do something for those people who do not have work, for they have no leaders to bring them to Strasbourg by the busload."@en1
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