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Cameron’s EU deal ‘risks watering down’ rights
PM’s ‘competitiveness a code for reducing workers’ rights’
WORKERS’ rights are at risk of being “watered down” as part of David Cameron’s EU renegotiation, Labour MPs warned yesterday.
A commitment to “enhance competitiveness” was part of a deal struck between the Prime Minister and European Council president Donald Tusk published yesterday.
“We will regularly assess progress in simplifying legislation and reducing [the] burden on business so that red tape is cut,” Mr Tusk wrote in a letter to leaders of other EU member states.
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