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"Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, a huge demonstration today in Strasbourg has told us loud and clear that there is a need for a different Europe. This desire for a different Europe is the opposite of the Bolkestein directive and can find no satisfaction even in the compromise, which comes nowhere near to understanding this need. What it creates, in fact, is a predominant right to profit from services as commodities, so that trade rules and GATS become the basic law, rather than rights and best practices.
Who decides what is necessary, proportionate and non-discriminatory? This directive will end up creating a great many legal disputes. That is made worse by the fact that the compromise does not exclude public services and civic services from the scope of the directive, while it is striking that it does exclude the professions and financial and insurance services, namely the powerful sectors. The self-employed are left at the mercy of dumping, and it is easy to imagine what will happen. We want some new ideas, but instead we are offered the old ones again. That is why we shall vote against this directive and this poor compromise."@en1
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