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"Madam President, I hope it will not seem grandiose if I suggest that this quite long technical piece of legislation might be a microcosm of the European Union as a whole. In the first case, the process by which we arrived at this piece of work was collaborative, it was sensible, it was admirably led by the rapporteur, Mr Becker, and I learned a lot as a British socialist about where the centre of gravity in this Union lies. It lies in a very liberal, sensible, social place. Social partnership was easily woven throughout this piece of legislation as it could never have been in the UK. It is free to workers throughout, there was no controversy with other political partners, and cherry-picking by the private sector was as abhorrent to our PPE colleagues in this process as it was to us, which it would never have been back in the UK. I think the whole of our proceedings very often mirror this experience. It was also long, dull, dry, technical and difficult to explain to other people, but actually rather important and meaningful, and in that sense too it mirrors the work that we do as a whole in this place and in these institutions.
Finally, in what is only ever two minutes, this is an instrument which did not use to work at all, but which thanks to this legislation has been fundamentally revised and in future will, I think, work very well and will improve access to jobs and work for hundreds of millions of people across the Union in a very productive and beneficial way."@en1
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