The principle of protecting workers from the risk of injury must not be undermined.
But people close to Mr. Bush say he was encouraged that many Republicans who won tough races for the Senate and House on Nov. 5 defended, in the face of ferocious Democratic attacks, the principle of allowing workers to invest a share of their payroll taxes in the financial markets.
Another principle of a knowledge worker's mindset is to separate fact from opinion.
The German move goes to the heart of the principle of free movement of workers within the EU, one of the cornerstones of the union.
Accepting the principle of free movement of workers is a key to being part of the single market.
He is saying that he will reform – though not rip up – the principle of free movement of workers in two ways through treaty change.
In particular, Britain was warned that its plan to prevent non-UK citizens from receiving in-work benefits for four years could attack one of the key tenets of the union, since it threatened the principle of free movement of workers and would require a treaty change that other EU countries would not tolerate.
In a stark reminder of the challenge Britain faces at the negotiating table, Robert Fico said Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia – known as the Visegrad, or V4, group – would not hesitate to block any future trade accord that threatened the key EU principle of free movement of workers.
The few countries that have been given access to the European free-trade zone without joining the European Union — notably, Iceland, Norway and Switzerland — all contribute to the bloc's budget and accept its bedrock principle of free movement of workers, the very issues that angered so many of the Britons who voted to leave.
In an interview with the newspaper Der Tagesspiegel, Schulz said: "The European parliament won't wave through a proposal that makes deep cuts into the principle of free movement of workers in order to solve a problem that has been described in dramatic terms but hasn't been proven to actually exist".
"We will seek to build alliances with many MEPs and governments who want to restore faith in the basic principle of free movement of workers".
