European Parliament
A7-0160/2012
David Campbell Bannerman  (ECR ),
Blue-card answer.
– Ms Kolarska-Bobińska, no, absolutely not. I do compliment the report. As I said quite clearly, I am in favour of equal pay for equal work. That principle is very important. What I query is whether this should be done at EU level. I do not believe it should be; it should be for nation states. However, I absolutely agree with you on the principle. It is the intervention at EU level, the heavy costs of that and the power of the EU over sovereign states that I object to.
(The speaker agreed to take a blue-card question under Rule 149(8))

