I dette tilfælde vil jeg særligt henvende mig til hr. Špidla, for jeg har ærgret mig ualmindeligt meget over den måde, hvorpå en holdning, som vi indtog på det sidste plenarmøde om arbejdstidsdirektivet, er behandlet. Der kom øjeblikkeligt en reaktion, som var meget negativ over for Europa-Parlamentets holdning og temmelig lydhør over for et veto fra én medlemsstat, som havde fået nogle andre medlemsstater til at støtte sig i sagen om arbejdstidsdirektivet.
In this case, I would particularly like to address Mr Spidla, because I was extremely vexed by the way in which a position we adopted last time in the plenary about the Working Hours Directive was handled; this was immediately followed by a reaction that was very negative towards Parliament’s position and that very much pandered to a veto by one Member State that had added a few other Member States to the Working Hours Directive dossier.