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Mr President, on behalf of the Budgetary Control Committee, I should like to say how pleased we were that all our points were taken up by the rapporteur.
Everyone in this House knows how much time has been spent on this directive. Judging by the compromise amendments tabled by the PPE-DE Group and the PSE Group, there has been quite a lot of St Valentine’s spirit around in the past month. It is a shame that these compromises go so far from the text adopted in the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection, after some heroic efforts by Mr Harbour, the shadow rapporteur.
Personally, I can understand that there are times when concessions are necessary, but not these compromises, not now in a Europe where there is an obvious need for economic reform. President Barroso, as a reformed Communist, knows that often in politics the most noise comes from the political extremes. Very often it is the Left that shouts the loudest. Indeed, about 30 000 people are marching in Strasbourg today, wanting to protect the markets in which they operate. Whilst that may make them feel more comfortable in the short term, it does not help them in their employment prospects in the long term. They forget the 20 million people currently unemployed across our continent.
If we do not liberalise, if we do not maintain the country-of-origin principle, that 20 million will be joined by many others in the future and many others will continue to stagnate. As you would expect, Mr President, as a Conservative I do not often agree with my Prime Minister, Mr Blair. However, I agree with his government when it says that this directive has been watered down too much already. I wonder if his own MEPs do.
It is a challenge to this House, through voting for the amendments passed in the Internal Market Committee, to fashion a directive that allows Europe to walk the walk and not just talk the talk of liberalisation, and that creates new jobs and does not just protect the status quo."@en1
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