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) Ladies and gentlemen, I am fully in favour of the European Parliament passing the Services Directive for the internal market. This includes the key measures of Article 16, which states clearly that service providers are subject only to the national provisions of their Member State. I also support the proposal from the Commission contained in Articles 24 and 25, which will greatly ease the movement of workers within the EU market. It is only by adopting the Directive in this form that we will establish firm foundations for implementing a single market in the services sector. I will now quote from the first agreement between the states of the Union on economic integration, namely the Messina Declaration, which it is now 50 years old. The statesmen of the time set themselves the goal of creating a common market and gradually introducing the free movement of labour.
I quote: ‘The governments of the Federal Republic of Germany, Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands firmly believe that the time has come to take a further step towards a united Europe’. They believed that it was necessary to achieve this goal primarily within the economic sphere, and that a united Europe must be created through the development of common institutions, the gradual linking up of national economies, the creation of a common market and the gradual harmonisation of social policies. I regard such a programme as essential, if Europe is to retain its position and renew its influence and prestige in the world, while continuing to improve the living standards of its inhabitants. Here ends this fifty-year old quotation.
Ladies and gentlemen, I hereby call particularly on those members from the aforementioned states to remain true to the aims of their political forbears and not to abandon the ideal of an open economy. To do otherwise would risk unleashing from the bottle the black and red genie of populism and nationalism, the genie that has in the past brought this continent only tyranny and poverty."@en1
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"Jana Bobošíková (NI ). –"1
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