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What continental foreign language do you speak fluently?
Reply from
Kathleen Funchion
,Thank you for the question, the lisbon treaty is still the same treaty that
we voted on in June 08 there has been talk from the government about legally
binding guarantees on some aspects of the treaty, however we have not
actually seen these guarantees. We need to see these firsty as we cannot go
on trust from this government with their track record to date. Secondly
there has been no mention on the issue of protecting our public services or
the workers rights issue. We are calling for a social progress clause to be
included in all treaties going foward to protect our public services and we
want a guarantee from government on the trade union recognition and
collective barganing issue.
I studied french and spanish to secondary school level and continued spanish
to college, however I think I am out of practice and would need to brush up
significantly to call myself fluent
Kind Regards
Kathleen Funchion