Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-11-28-Speech-3-075"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2007-11-28"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Common principles on flexicurity (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"de"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20071128.15.3-075"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2007-11-28-Speech-3-0762
lpv:speaker	lp:Elisabeth Schroedter2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation for relations with Belarus (2007-03-14--2009-07-13)3 member; REGI (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Bündnis 90/Die Grünen (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; G/EFA (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Moldova Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 member; EMPL (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	". Mr President, Commissioner, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, ladies and gentlemen, the debate about flexicurity shows that it is not possible to transfer a given social model from one Member State directly to the EU as a whole. Nor does this seem to be what the Commission wants. Its document is not about improving the social security of workers in light of radically changing labour market conditions; no, the Commission wants to push flexibility of employment relations without actually being in a position to improve social security for workers: that falls within the competence of the Member States where there are many different notions of just how important it is. What’s more, the key role and the control function performed by the trade unions – which in Denmark are an essential element of the flexicurity model – cannot be taken as a given in other Member States at present, or indeed at any time in the near future. In some governments, too, where flexicurity is interpreted and championed solely as flexibility, trade union rights are being further curtailed at the same time. We Greens are critical of efforts to use flexicurity as a vehicle by which to introduce the deregulation of labour law throughout the EU, thereby achieving global competitiveness for the European Union at the expense of workers’ rights. Unfortunately, the coalition in this House is following the Commission’s lead and is missing out on the opportunity to introduce a core element – namely social security – as an equally important component into the flexicurity model. I wonder how the Socialists intend to explain this to workers. My concern is that we will be missing out on the opportunities for a future debate about the benefits that are undoubtedly inherent in the flexicurity model as well. We therefore need to amend the report, or we will be unable to support it."@en1

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