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"Mr President, if you have a market at European level – which we do, with the single European market – you of course need common rules for that common market so that it works fairly and efficiently, not least in the social field. That is why we set employment standards and employment law and rules to protect workers’ rights – the Working Time Directive, health and safety legislation, the Parental Leave Directive, information and consultation of workers.
Yet the British Conservative Party – and I see that there is not a single member of that party present in the Chamber to discuss this at the moment – wants the United Kingdom to opt out completely from the Social Chapter of the Treaty, should they ever come back to power in the United Kingdom. Do they think for one moment that the rest of the European Union would accept that one single Member State opts out of the obligations that we have jointly developed at European level to govern our market? Do they really think that sort of unfair competition, by lowering health and safety standards and weakening the rights of workers, would be acceptable? Of course it would not! The British Conservatives are a recipe for disaster for Britain and for Europe."@en1
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