Text tabled : A6-0241/2009

  Hélène Goudin and Nils Lundgren (IND/DEM), in writing. − (SV) This report insists that Member States need to modernise and reform their national social security systems, introduce minimum wages and review the curricula in schools. Moreover, there is to be higher financial participation of employees in companies’ proceeds, and a European year of volunteering is to be introduced. These are unusually extreme examples of how the EU intends to take over national self­determination.

In addition, the report contains two references to the Treaty of Lisbon, which has still not entered into force. This is a brazen expression of the arrogance of power! The implication is that the democratic debate on the Treaty is seen as merely playing to the gallery and is not considered to have any significance for the outcome.

We therefore voted against the report in the final vote.