countdown 11 to kill service directive

11 more days to the European Parliament's plenary session that will discuss the service directive (Bolkestein directive) - and hopefully reject it.

The "county of origin" rule will ruin labor standards and lead to social dumping.

Sign the petition of the Austrian trade unions and of the StopBolkestein initiative:

Read more at the website of the Austrian Student Union (OeH):

And after the rejection Bolkestein's successor Neelie Kroes might finally want to think about plans of how to reconcile the need of common standards of social security (the unions have worked years on this issue) and the interest of the New Member States to stronger market access. That might be a better idea than renaming the "country of origin" rule ... again.