MEPS talk about EU, A work free Sunday

Let's talk about EU is the brand new monthly current affairs programme brought to you by the EUobserver.com. Shot in the European Parliament in Brussels, the panel debates place controversial topics on the table and see a selection of Members of the European Parliament discuss them. In this debate, you can watch Ilda Figueiredo (GUE/NGL), Nirj Deva (ECR), Antigoni Papadopoulou (S&D) and Nadja Hirsch (ALDE) voice their views on the Protection of a work free Sunday in the EU.

Related EUobserver articles: Commission pressed to protect work-free Sundays, http://euobserver.com/9/29763

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• ALDE
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[avisrothwell]

have a nice day..

[DigitalPraise7]

@theonewillcome AMEN! Preach the straight Word!

[tclhoneyabby]

Just because other occupations work and it works for them it doesn't mean everyone should have to work does it? Do we come down on Gays because they are different? Do we come down on the French because they are different and speak French? It's not a bad thing for stores being forced to close on Sundays. We all have laws to abide by.

[MrAngel1614]

The EP talking about work free Sundays???? Yet again an absurd topic to discuss at this level.

Instead of work free they should be talking about how to create work

[EuropeanUnionRules]

The lady hosting the show needs to stop interrupting the guests. She needs to let them have their say . otherwise the concept is good.

[SeatonRyan]

wow! It is sooo refreshing to see a Catholic supportive of freedom of choice/liberty of conscience on this issue of how you are going to implement a "work free Sunday". Protect individual rights similar to the proposed Workplace Religious Freedom Act which is supported by many faiths (including Seventh-Day Adventists) and Leaders like Hillary Clinton. (Search youtube for Hillary SDA Adventist ) to see her statement on the matter. Oregon passed it last year! Good example . much better than this!

[gabipetersilie]

Nur weil der Sonntag für manche traditionell der freie Tag ist, muss er nicht gesetzlich festgelegt werden. Hier mischt sich der Staat in religiöse Angelegenheiten ein und erklärt den Feiertag eines Teils der Bevölkerung als bindend für alle.

[theonewillcome]

Jesus said:

Matt 15:3 Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?

Deut 5:12 Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee.

Exo 31:17 It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.

Gods Seal is in His Sabbath:

Isa 8:16 Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.

Repent, Jesus is coming!

[2karriizman]

Go back in history, and you will find that this is not the first attempt to enforce Sunday law. Constantine enforced this in 326AD and what followed was the Dark Ages This included those who kept Friday and Saturday.

No church nor state has the right to deny anyone's right to 'free will' choice.

I think history allows one to learn from the mistakes of the past and not to repeat history' atrocities.