He said that there would always be unanimity on social questions but, in the Commission' s draft, plans are quite explicitly being made for majority decision-making on issues relating to social security and on taxes connected with the internal market. This means that it will be possible for major parts of the social systems in the Member States to be changed by a majority in Brussels, even if a unanimous French National Assembly, a British House of Commons and a Dutch Lower House should be against this.
Han sagde, at der stadig skulle være enstemmighed i sociale spørgsmål, men i Kommissionens udkast lægges der jo helt udtrykkeligt op til flertalsafgørelse i spørgsmål om social sikring og de skatter, der knytter sig til det indre marked, og det betyder, at hovedparten af de sociale systemer i medlemslandene skal kunne ændres af et flertal i Bruxelles, selvom en enstemmig fransk nationalforsamling, et britisk underhus og et hollandsk andetkammer måtte være imod det.