Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-02-14-Speech-2-359"

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dcterms:Date	"2006-02-14"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20060214.28.2-359"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2006-02-14-Speech-2-3602
lpv:speaker	lp:Simon Busuttil2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, it is rather ironic that we should be debating the Services Directive on Valentine’s Day, because, for the Services Directive – but certainly also for Mr Bolkestein – this must surely be a case of unrequited love. Last month we overwhelmingly rejected the Port Services Directive and, this time round, we could almost have done the same, were it not for the fact that the Commission proposal will be transformed by this House into a compromise – not the best one, perhaps, but one which can still be workable and which, crucially, strikes a balance between our objective of opening up the services market and our intention of addressing the social concerns that are justified. I stress ‘justified concerns’ because we all know by now that this proposal has been plagued by scaremongering. Coming from a new Member State, this scaremongering seems like déjà vu. In my country, opponents of EU membership used to conjure up nightmare scenarios that foreign workers would invade us and take our jobs. The same Cassandras played the same act in the old Member States too, but now we know that the doomsday scenarios were just not true: they did not materialise, nor will they materialise with the Services Directive. The opening-up of the services market is good and we should say so loud and clear. It is good for business – in particular for SMEs – and it is good for jobs. We have a reasonable compromise. I say ‘let’s go for it’."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (2004-08-31--2009-07-13)3 vice-chair; Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union (including Libya) (2004-09-20--2007-03-13)3 substitute; Temporary Committee on the alleged use of European countries by the CIA for the transport and illegal detention of prisoners (2006-01-19--2007-02-14)3 substitute; REGI (2004-07-22--2007-01-14)3 member; Delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 member; CONT (2005-02-21--2007-01-14)3 member; BUDG (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 unknown; Partit Nazzjonalista (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Simon Busuttil (PPE-DE ). –"1

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