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"Mr President, if I could offer the Commission one piece of advice as it decides upon next year’s work programme, it would be to stop wasting time discussing a financial transaction tax and instead to concentrate on making the EU more competitive.
The United Kingdom has made clear that it will veto the FTT. If the Commission knows that it can get around the veto with a clever legal manoeuvre regarding the legal basis of such attacks, then let us hear about it. But if, as I suspect, the Commission knows that it cannot, why does it waste time with this posturing? Is it because attacking the City of London wins some cheap popularity on the benches opposite? Or, is it in fact because the Commission has so little else to offer?
Unemployment in Europe is high and rising. Instead of proposing new regulation, you should be repealing it. You should help our businesses create jobs. The Commission should start by scrapping the Working Time Directive. This bureaucratic law costs jobs. I urge you to repeal it, and let our citizens decide what hours they work."@en1
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