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"Mr President, this report makes many valuable proposals about how companies ought to respond to restructuring. It is self-evidently right that workers should receive the maximum notice of redundancies and of course receive improved opportunities for re-employment. However, recital AC states, quite rightly, that different companies, sectors and countries have different needs, so I think Member State legislation would be more appropriate than EU legislation.
There is one glaring flaw in the report. It treats the need for restructuring as though it were an autonomous need over which neither the EU nor Member States had any control. Recommendation 1 mentions the need for companies to be competitive. The question is with whom or what and why? The answer is twofold: relatively low labour costs within the EU and peripheral countries in Europe and much lower labour costs and appalling working conditions in the Third World and the so-called emergent economies. The unspoken cause of the need for restructuring is the process of globalisation which all the countries have signed up to."@en1
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