Treaty of Lisbon (No. 3) — (3rd allotted day)

Part of Points of Order – in the House of Commons at 6:04 pm on 5 February 2008.

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Photo of Denis MacShane Denis MacShane Labour, Rotherham 6:04, 5 February 2008

Does my right hon. Friend accept that the German constitution forbids some 1.5 million to 2 million civil servants and public sector employees from even going on strike? It is the Germans who insisted on many of the safeguards—the so-called lateral or horizontal safeguards—being put into the charter before the protocol question arose, to preserve their ban on strikes, which is far more draconian than anything in the UK.