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"The recent judgments of the Court of Justice in the Laval-Vaxholm case in Sweden, the Viking Line case in Finland and now the Rüffert case in Germany simply serve to clarify the real objectives and priorities of this European Union.
To be more specific, the ‘primacy’ of the principle of ‘freedom of establishment’, as laid down in Articles 43 and 46 of the Treaty, which prohibits any ‘restrictions on the freedom of establishment’.
The Court of Justice considers as a ‘restriction’, and therefore ‘unlawful’ under Community law, the freedom of workers and their representative bodies to defend their rights and interests, namely respect for what has been agreed in collective bargaining.
This legitimises social dumping and attacks on collective negotiation and bargaining in the EU and encourages ‘competition’ between workers, in practice imposing the prevalence of the ‘country of origin’ principle, that is to say, paying lower salaries and downgrading protection of workers’ rights in contractual relations with employers.
These judgments uncover the EU’s class nature and who its neoliberal policies really benefit (and who they are driven by), dispelling all the speechifying about the much proclaimed ‘social Europe’ and showing how EU policies are an affront to workers’ hard-won rights."@en1
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