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Services Directive has not been a good example of communicating with the people.
February 16, 2006 12:11 PM
Speaking in the debate in the European Parliament ahead of the vote on the controversial Services Directive, local Liberal Denmocrat Euro MP, Diana Wallis, said that the Directive had not been a good example of communicating with the people.
The Services Directive is designed to lift barriers that make it hard for a company to provide services abroad. It will be voted on in the European Parliament today, Thursday.
In her speech to the European Parliament, the Yorkshire & the Humber Liberal Democrat MEP said:
"My hope is that whatever form of compromise is voted on it will represent a step forward. I hope that it will underline and take forward the long-standing basic Treaty freedom to provide services and that at last we will make this existing freedom more of a reality than it has been to date. However, let us learn one clear lesson for the future from all of this: a matter of such importance deserves thorough and long-standing preparation, particularly preparation of Europe's public - the citizens we seek to represent and who in large number we seem to have managed to antagonise over this proposal.
"Compare this to 1992: the years of preparartion, the number of separate pieces of legislation, the final and general excitment to welcome the free market in goods. Contrast that with this present method: one far-reaching proposal for a directive literally dumped on the table at the end of the last mandate.
"This cannot be the way to do things. I hope indeed that we will learn the lesson for the future about communicating Europe."
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