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    An interesting idea for blending Europe into a broader cross-cultural society for sure.

    Oh and as for proclaiming this a new right, that's flat out not true. The Declaration of Human Rights Article 24 already states:
    Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.
    So debate the idea all you like, just don't claim it is a new thing - this has been around since the 40s.
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    Quote Originally Posted by CountArach View Post
    An interesting idea for blending Europe into a broader cross-cultural society for sure.

    Oh and as for proclaiming this a new right, that's flat out not true. The Declaration of Human Rights Article 24 already states:
    Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.
    So debate the idea all you like, just don't claim it is a new thing - this has been around since the 40s.
    The practical aspect of my political ideology tells me that the Declaration of Human Rights has been invalid to the US since the 1980s and the rise of neoconservatives who need to do everything and anything to stop terrorists.

    EDIT: By that, I mean that the American public needs to stand up for that right and declare it all over again because no one cares what a piece of paper written by gasp "socialist Europeans" says anymore.
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    Quote Originally Posted by CountArach View Post

    Oh and as for proclaiming this a new right, that's flat out not true. The Declaration of Human Rights Article 24 already states:
    Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.
    So debate the idea all you like, just don't claim it is a new thing - this has been around since the 40s.
    Thank you for the correction. Ridiculous, but apparently not a new idea.

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    Actually, there is a difference in the write-up, it is the fundamental right to be able to go aboard on holiday. For example, the debt ridden Scottish can go to debt-ridden Greece, and vice-versus!
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    In (most of? all of?) Europe, allowances for travel are already factored in in both social benefits and wages.


    What is new, is that industry is trying to tap into this, and combine it with European efforts to internationalise the markets. This idea originated in the travel industry, and its political proponents are rightwing and Christian-democrat politicians, what with their tradition of close cooperation between industry and politics..


    Not that the idea is bad simply for being a rightwing money making racket, mind. If people receive allowances for holidays, one might as well make it an international holiday. Let the German lower waged worker holiday in Italy, and the Italian pensioner in Germany.

    The big attraction is also the drawback of the proposal: it allows for central interference in the market.

    Currently, the hotels and the rest of the travel infrastructure on the Spanish coast are mostly unused eight months out of twelve. One can fill it with pensioners and students. This should lower prices during the high season, provide more stable employment, and benefit social inclusion. I can think of a thousand other benefits, and a thousand of the usual drawbacks that come with governemt intervention.


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    I think I could clear up on my opinion. The insanity would lie in the "right" part of having a international holiday, should it be outside a rethorical statement, since you're always allowed to use those rights (outside some rare exceptions). Having rights to paid holidays are another matter, which rightfully is legislated.

    Louis, the hotels are already compensating with lower prices the way you decribe. As for the last statement, remember that handouts here usually comes with ownership and also I'm not particulary fond of what's ends up as state support of tourism. It's simply not free market, so it should then more of less be followed with a general shift from free market economics. Because if the state needs to pay the market to support it and keeping people employed, it's blatantly obvious that the market is failing.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ironside View Post
    I think I could clear up on my opinion. The insanity would lie in the "right" part of having a international holiday, should it be outside a rethorical statement, since you're always allowed to use those rights (outside some rare exceptions). Having rights to paid holidays are another matter, which rightfully is legislated.

    Louis, the hotels are already compensating with lower prices the way you decribe. As for the last statement, remember that handouts here usually comes with ownership and also I'm not particulary fond of what's ends up as state support of tourism. It's simply not free market, so it should then more of less be followed with a general shift from free market economics. Because if the state needs to pay the market to support it and keeping people employed, it's blatantly obvious that the market is failing.
    Oh, you know how these things work. When everybody claims X, I'll argue Y. More's the fun. If the Eurocommies had gotten to this thread first, then I'd probably by now had been arguing the insanity of government distortion of the market.


    Having said that though, I'm not fundamentally opposed to the idea. I would have to read up about details of it (if they exist already?), and the consequences, which I'm sure I don't all understand yet.

    As it is, holidays are part of wages, infrastructure for tourism is subsidised by the EU through structural funds for underdeveloped areas (Scottish Highlands, Spain's inetrior, Hungary's lakes etc), and markets are being internationalised by the EU. As such, it is not an enormous leap to further develop these policies into a more encompassing one.
    Also, the tourism industry is very sensitive to economic cycles, and very seasonal. It could do with stabilisation.
    Lastly, I'm not averse to the social aspects of the proposal.



    The Spanish taxpayer subsidises holidays for EU citizens of other states:
    Spain Offers Holidays Subsidised to European Senior Tourists out of Season

    The Spanish government wants Europeans to rediscover the huge potential of Spanish tourist destinations during the winter season. It has therefore created the “EUROPE SENIOR TOURISM” programme, which this first year will market subsidised Spanish holidays that include transport, full-board accommodation in 4-star hotels, trips and travel insurance to Andalusia and the Balearic Islands.
    European citizens from Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, France, Italy, Denmark, Belgium, the Netherlands, Greece, Austria, Portugal, Slovenia, Rumania and Ireland are already reaping the benefits of this programme.
    To participate in this programme, you must be over 55 years and a European Union citizen. Just go to www.europeseniortourism.eu or visit an authorised distributor of the Europe Senior Tourism programme, where you will be able to access the range of available destinations and accommodation.
    In addition, one person under 55 years can accompany the senior tourist on the same holiday and for the same price.
    We are therefore talking about holidays at low prices, in a country that is known worldwide for its sunny climate, the quality of its services, its culture and friendly inhabitants.
    The Spanish government wants Europeans to rediscover the huge potential of Spanish tourist destinations during the winter season. It has therefore created the “EUROPE SENIOR TOURISM” programme, which this first year will market subsidised Spanish holidays that include transport, full-board accommodation in 4-star hotels, trips and travel insurance to Andalusia and the Balearic Islands.


    European citizens from Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, France, Italy, Denmark, Belgium, the Netherlands, Greece, Austria, Portugal, Slovenia, Rumania and Ireland are already reaping the benefits of this program.
    To participate in this program, you must be over 55 years and a European Union citizen. Just go to www.europeseniortourism.eu or visit an authorised distributor of the Europe Senior Tourism programme, where you will be able to access the range of available destinations and accommodation. In addition, one person under 55 years can accompany the senior tourist on the same holiday and for the same price.
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    Quote Originally Posted by CountArach View Post
    An interesting idea for blending Europe into a broader cross-cultural society for sure.

    Oh and as for proclaiming this a new right, that's flat out not true. The Declaration of Human Rights Article 24 already states:
    Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.
    So debate the idea all you like, just don't claim it is a new thing - this has been around since the 40s.
    But this about people who are already working right? And doesn't say anything about sending "pensioners, young people aged 18 to 25, disabled people and families facing “difficult social, financial or personal circumstances” on trips, because holiday can just mean "time off work".

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    Quote Originally Posted by CountArach View Post
    Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.
    Surely holiday in that sense means a set period of time off work (as in two weeks for Easter Holidays), as opposed to a travel break abroad?
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    'The right to rest and leisure'

    This leisure needs to be put into practicable law. What was considered appropriate leisure fifty years ago is not appropriate by current standards. A foreign holiday was a luxury in 1950, reserved for only the very rich. Nowadays, it is so common amongst the working class, that to be deprived of it amounts to social exclusion.

    Electricity, a telephone, access to bathing facilities at one point were considered luxuries too, but are now a basic right.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat View Post
    'The right to rest and leisure'

    This leisure needs to be put into practicable law. What was considered appropriate leisure fifty years ago is not appropriate by current standards. A foreign holiday was a luxury in 1950, reserved for only the very rich. Nowadays, it is so common amongst the working class, that to be deprived of it amounts to social exclusion.

    Electricity, a telephone, access to bathing facilities at one point were considered luxuries too, but are now a basic right.
    They aren't though. You have the right to have access to electricity. But if you don't pay your bill you don't get none.

    I think we should value rest and leisure much more highly than we do though. 4 day workweek!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sasaki Kojiro View Post
    I think we should value rest and leisure much more highly than we do though. 4 day workweek!
    One of my pet peeves. Why has so little of economic progress been converted into buying time for people?

    Surely one of the greatest improvements in quality of life for the working classes since 1850 has been to reduce working hours and extend time off from work in weekends and vacations? Why did this stop?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat View Post
    One of my pet peeves. Why has so little of economic progress been converted into buying time for people?

    Surely one of the greatest improvements in quality of life for the working classes since 1850 has been to reduce working hours and extend time off from work in weekends and vacations? Why did this stop?
    I don't know, but it seems people consistently underestimate the value of vacation time. One of our blind spots, either innate or cultural, I guess.

    Welcome to Europe, where it's considered progress that a worker no longer sweats in a factory for sixteen hours a day, six days a week, no holidays, from age five until death.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat View Post
    'The right to rest and leisure'

    This leisure needs to be put into practicable law. What was considered appropriate leisure fifty years ago is not appropriate by current standards. A foreign holiday was a luxury in 1950, reserved for only the very rich. Nowadays, it is so common amongst the working class, that to be deprived of it amounts to social exclusion.

    Electricity, a telephone, access to bathing facilities at one point were considered luxuries too, but are now a basic right.
    So who's depriving those people?

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    Well the way the article describe it, is -as you said- certainly `stupid'. Doesn't mean much in itself, though. For instance this could be about a more centralised version of various local tourism subsidies converted into an EU-wide programme; made to look more important than it is with the usual ill-conceived political rhetoric. Or it could be nothing but some tourism journalist getting worked up over nothing.
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    What they're doing in the article is pretty silly.

    But yeah, holiday is a basic human right. And I wholeheartedly agree with Louis. People should get more days off. Sasaki's 4 day work week is a good idea. Laziness is underrated nowadays.
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    So who's depriving those people?

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    Companies who want workers to work more days and/or hours and lobby to prevent such legislation for vacation from passing? Governments who dont raise the minimum wage since 1997, killing the purchasing power of the poor through inflation over decades causing them to work more hours to keep the the bare minimum standard of living above poverty?


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    Wow, that's stupid.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Crazed Rabbit View Post
    Wow, that's stupid.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CountArach View Post
    An interesting idea for blending Europe into a broader cross-cultural society for sure.

    Oh and as for proclaiming this a new right, that's flat out not true. The Declaration of Human Rights Article 24 already states:
    Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.
    So debate the idea all you like, just don't claim it is a new thing - this has been around since the 40s.
    40's if you mean 3040s BCE or thereabouts. Check Exodus 20:10. Nothing about pay mentioned one way or another though. That's probably more recent.


    Down-time/rest is a human NEED. Whether or not it can be construed as a right is a matter of perspective. Deny it completely and for long enough, however, and things start to get sloppy.
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