– (DE) Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the Services Directive is one of the most important directives in term
s of the freedom to provide services, making possible, on the one hand, fair competition among service-providing enterprises right across Europe, while also, on the other, containing unambiguous rules for the protection of the posted workers, and also setting down minimum standards appli
cable to all, while nevertheless providing sufficient flexibility to enable these standards to be enforced by the various nat
...[+++]ional systems.