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"Mr President, Parliament is capitulating today and renouncing its political role. The compromise means that the concept of the country of origin principle is being removed and replaced by a political vacuum. This vacuum will then be filled by the European Court of Justice which, in turn, will reintroduce the country of origin principle, because the Court consistently puts internal market considerations before everything else. The Court cannot be dismissed, and nor can it be held accountable. Is that democracy? Only large companies with armies of lawyers will be able to use the Services Directive to uphold their interests. The only unemployment to which the directive will put an end is that of the lawyers. The losers will be the municipalities, public employees, consumers and small businesses. Let us vote down this directive. Instead of enforcing the liberalisation of everything, we should respect democratically taken decisions to preserve sectors from short-term thinking focused on the market. The EU cannot live on economic efficiency alone. We also need democratic efficiency in which people are not constantly ridden roughshod over by bad directives."@en1

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