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"Mr President, the European Court of Justice’s three judgements on Viking Lines, Laval and Rüffert are based a single premise. That premise stems from the four freedoms of movement of capital enshrined in the Treaty of Maastricht, the Directives on the internal market and on the posting of workers, as confirmed by Articles 43 and 49 in the renamed European Constitution, which is the Treaty of Lisbon. The judgements of the European Court of Justice are political and deeply reactionary: big business groups impose mediaeval terms of employment to increase their profits. Not only are the rights to strike and to collective bargaining being called into question, but there is a third important factor that I should like to add. International labour conventions, which have been signed and ratified through the International Labour Organisation (ILO), are being called into question. For this reason, equal pay and equal work for all workers must be guaranteed. Workers from the countries joining the EU after 1 May 2004 owe nothing to anyone. Together with all the other workers of Europe, they should fight to improve working conditions and pay. There should be equal pay for equal work."@en1

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