Nigel FARAGE (IND/DEM, UK) spoke against the directive by commenting that despite the Lisbon Agenda's objectives, " we have 20 million people unemployed " throughout Europe, that growth rates are "desperately low " in the euro-zone, that we are "stumbling around in an economic desert" and that the Bolkestein directive is merely a "mirage".
Kreisie spēki aicināja balsot pret direktīvas projektu kopumā, deputātei Sahra Wagenknecht (GUE/NGL, DE) uzsverot, ka katra jauna liberalizācija Eiropas Savienībā ir vedusi pie bezdarba pieauguma, mazākam algām un pazeminājusi labklājības līmeni.