Roxana Minzatu

We will look at gaps.

So gaps mean where we have no types of frameworks and of regulatory setups.

And whether these gaps need to be filled or not, it will be the result of these consultations with the social partners.

But this is clear, and I work very closely with the executive vice president for technology in the commission, with Hena Virkunen,

We are working together, not in silos.

So obviously everything will be carefully balanced so that any type of outputs of this Quality Jobs Act is not creating burden or any type of negative influence on companies.

But we cannot forget about people, about workers, because it's them in the end that need also to deliver competitiveness and they need also to benefit from the prosperity that we want to share in Europe.

But look, we are already doing a lot on simplification and that's not looking, we're not talking about labor rights, but we're talking about many overlaps or regulatory burdens that needed to be made easier and simpler for companies.

But on the other side,

Is Europe ready or willing to go in a direction where it says that workers and people that deliver for competitiveness need to be put on the third place or to be left outside of the discussion?

I mean, this is the big question.

Do you want human oversight then when it comes to this sort of... Human-centric is Europe.

Europe has set the standards with the AI Act, with...

safety and security in the workplaces and with this approach of being human-centric.

But we need to find ways to do it so that it makes sense, it's pragmatic, it doesn't create for companies, as I said, pressures, but at the same time you cannot treat people as a machine.

they are, in the end, the final end of our quest for competitiveness.

So that's why we need to balance workers' rights and workers' health and safety, their privacy, everything that is related to that, and the productivity that we need by using AI and by using technology.

So we need to find the right balance and to strike the right balance so that we keep our European social model, but also make European industries more agile.

And when we say simplification, I do not think we say deregulation.

Because if we say that Europe is not competitive because people have too many rights, then I would say this is very dangerous.