{"id":665,"date":"2012-10-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/http:\/\/rusojuz.lv\/en\/mep-zdanokas-speech-on-guaranteeing-independent-impact-assessments-6-june-2011-strasbourg\/"},"modified":"2019-03-26T13:03:16","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T11:03:16","slug":"mep-zdanokas-speech-on-guaranteeing-independent-impact-assessments-6-june-2011-strasbourg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rusojuz.lv\/en\/mep-zdanokas-speech-on-guaranteeing-independent-impact-assessments-6-june-2011-strasbourg\/","title":{"rendered":"MEP Zdanoka&#8217;s speech on Guaranteeing independent impact assessments (6 June 2011 &#8211; Strasbourg)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tatjana \u017ddanoka (Verts\/ALE ). \u2013 Mr President, I warmly thank our rapporteur, Mr Falbr, for his work, and despite his initial concerns, the report remains very strong. Speaking on behalf of the Greens\/EFA Group, I would emphasise once again that the International Labour Organisation\u2019s role should be strengthened. Voluntary corporate social responsibility is a good thing but the primary role in promoting and protecting human rights belongs to states and international organisations.<\/p>\n<p>We do not think that legally binding standards should be avoided in the field of corporate responsibility: in Europe, we should create additional standards for company reporting. On the other hand, the violation of fundamental principles and rights at work cannot be used as a legitimate comparative advantage. Europe should promote its social model and improve, rather than reduce, social standards both internally and externally. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tatjana \u017ddanoka (Verts\/ALE ). \u2013 Mr President, I warmly thank our rapporteur, Mr Falbr, for his work, and despite his initial concerns, the report remains very strong. Speaking on behalf of the Greens\/EFA Group, I would emphasise once again that the International Labour Organisation\u2019s role should be strengthened. Voluntary corporate social responsibility is a good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eu-parliament-work","category-our-mer"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rusojuz.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rusojuz.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rusojuz.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rusojuz.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rusojuz.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rusojuz.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":788,"href":"https:\/\/rusojuz.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions\/788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rusojuz.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rusojuz.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rusojuz.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}