Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2011-11-15-Speech-2-271-000"

PredicateValue (sorted: default)
rdf:type
dcterms:Date
dcterms:Is Part Of
dcterms:Language
lpv:document identification number
"en.20111115.27.2-271-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent
lpv:speaker
lpv:spokenAs
lpv:translated text
"Madam President, the vote on the report on the European platform against poverty and social exclusion was not by a show of hands. Firstly, I would like to say that the reason why I am voting against it is because the principle of subsidiarity has not been complied with. I am surprised that we actually want the EU to introduce minimum wages. It is stated in paragraph 95 that this is to be done in full compliance with the principle of subsidiarity. This sentence alone actually renders paragraph 95 redundant. We cannot introduce minimum wages via the EU without violating the principle of subsidiarity. In Denmark, we have a model in which the social partners reach an agreement on the setting of wages by negotiation. That is the Nordic model in which the social partners negotiate wage levels themselves. The workers are very much in agreement with this and they are united in this agreement. They therefore adopt this principle. Another key paragraph in this report concerns the food distribution scheme. The fact that the EU could previously help to feed the poor by using the intervention stocks was great; it was good that butter mountains and milk lakes were at least, to a certain extent, used for something useful. However, the scheme should be abolished because it is out of date. We no longer have these surplus stocks."@en1
lpv:videoURI

Named graphs describing this resource:

1http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/rdf/English.ttl.gz
2http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/rdf/Events_and_structure.ttl.gz
3http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/rdf/spokenAs.ttl.gz

The resource appears as object in 2 triples

Context graph