03/02/2005 (Agence Europe) - Responding to the vote at the social affairs committee on the directive on health of workers at the workplace (a subject which we will be returning to), CSU MEP Anja Weisenberger appealed for suitable protection for workers in all Member States. She criticised the European Commission for having given a false picture in its communication on Small and Medium-sized Enterprises. In a press release she said that, “an industrial giant in the chemical industry can work differently to a small carpenter”. She said that the Commission had to show imagination and not impose excessive demands on Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, which are “our main employer and the main driving force in the Lisbon process”.