Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2011-06-08-Speech-3-339-500"
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"Promoting labour standards through the EU’s negotiations with third party countries benefits both the Member States and the third party countries. By promoting higher safety standards and better pay, the EU is helping improve workers’ lives. By insisting on better pay, the EU is also ensuring that there is a market in third party countries for EU exports. If we allow imports into Europe from countries that do not ensure fair wages, we are effectively pricing European companies out of the market. It is harder for EU companies to compete with third party countries who do not observe the same safety standards and who can pay employees much lower salaries. However, it is important to note the dangers involved in ‘soft law’ approaches to labour standards. As well as the fact that such rules are not binding and that there is no sanction if they are breached, it also risks reducing traditional supervisory systems in favour of informal monitoring procedures. Therefore, the EU must be vigilant and ensure that standards are adhered to and, if not, then action must be taken."@en1
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