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"Madam President, this own-initiative report on the Professional Qualifications Directive is another piece of ideologically-driven harmonisation. It calls for minimum training requirements, automatic recognition and the removing of formal obstacles to recognition of professional qualifications.
It goes on to say that ‘only if necessary should language tests be part of the recognition process and cannot be an additional border to mobility’.
Most normal people would want professional qualifications, especially medical qualifications, to be subject to maximum, not minimum, standards – and not speaking the language properly should very much be a bar to practising and mobility.
There is a case that clearly demonstrates the dangers. In 2008, a German-qualified doctor, Dr Daniel Ubani, was convicted in England of gross negligence and manslaughter after he over prescribed drugs to a patient.
This directive means we cannot discriminate against EU professionals, while we must discriminate against properly-qualified fluent English speakers from the Commonwealth. This is another good reason, if we needed one, why Britain should leave the European Union."@en1
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