The EU's deregulation frenzy: what's at stake?

EU Watchdog Radio

Corporate Europe Observatory and Counter Balance

News, Politics

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🗓️ 7 October 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Double deregulation, competitiveness checks, rule of law or the omnibus law, it can all sound like technocratic gibberish, but they are all pieces of the downward spiral in social standards that are in immediate risk.

But this social dumping is not the only challenge ahead, the same applies to environmental protection. This episode takes us beyond these unpronounceable words to discuss what is really at stake and what civil society should do about it.

Welcome to a brand new episode of EU Watchdog Radio, where Joana Louçã talks to Kenneth Haar and Olivier Hoedeman about what we already know of the plans the European Commission has for the coming five years.

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0:00.0	Of the three coalitions, if you would ask me which one of the three have come out as the big winner?
0:06.0	I would say the Antwerp Declaration.
0:09.2	It's really important that the European parliaments, they use their powers to prevent a weakening of social environments.
0:17.2	...theirms of standards.
0:32.0	You're listening to radio.
0:37.5	Hi, welcome to a whole new episode of EU Watchdog Radio.
0:41.4	I'm Joanna Lossin, Com's Officer at Corporate Europe Observatory.
0:45.8	And today I'll be talking to my colleagues, Kenneth Har and Olivia Hudamun,
0:51.4	about what we already know of the plans the European Commission has for the coming five years.
0:57.3	I know the topic sounds dry, and we will have to use words that are even drier, such as double deregulation, competitiveness, rule of law, and my personal favorite,
1:08.8	the omnibus law. But despite this apparent dryness, it is important.
1:14.2	And if you want to read about it, check out our long article called Competitiveness
1:19.4	Inside the Troubling Corporate Blueprint for the Coming Commission.
1:24.1	Let's zoom out for a second and consider an hypothetical worker from Carrazada di Ancians, a small town in the northeast of Portugal.
1:34.8	Let's call her Maria.
1:37.2	Maria gets sent by her company to work in Sili, Valonia in Belgium.
1:42.8	Maria is happy.
1:44.0	The prospect of a change of scenery and the Belgian working contract are somewhat appeasing
1:49.3	and might even diminish the Saudis she will feel from being in such a different country.
1:56.1	However, she is then informed that her contract will remain the same.
2:00.4	Her salary will remain the same. her salary will remain the same,
2:03.0	her benefits, or lack thereof, will remain the same.
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