Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-05-18-Speech-4-204"

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dcterms:Date	"2000-05-18"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Equal treatment (continuation)2
dcterms:Language	"sv"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000518.7.4-204"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-05-18-Speech-4-2052
lpv:speaker	lp:Astrid Thors2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3,3 chair; Delegation to the EU-Romania Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-09-13--2002-01-14)3,3 unknown; Svenska folkpartiet (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3,3 substitute; Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3,3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Lithuania Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3,3 member; PETI (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3,3 member; Conference of Delegation Chairs (1999-09-13--2002-01-14)3,3 member_of_the_bureau; ELDR (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3,3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the says that we need 13.5 million immigrants by the year 2015 in order to get everything done that needs to be done in Europe. The says that we shall not succeed in obtaining that level of immigration and recruitment. On other continents, there is an awareness of how racism is growing in Europe, and it is precisely because of racism that immigrants are choosing other continents, notably America, instead of Europe. We are used to coming out against racism, because we want to combat intolerance and xenophobia. Perhaps we must also combat these things for the sake of our own future. Those who maintain that they speak for enterprise and for small businesses are speaking against their own better judgement when they do not support the present proposed directive. I support most of the amendments, but on one point I am uneasy. This is Amendment No 29 in which it is proposed that a difference of treatment on the basis of ethnic origin, which is presented as a difference of treatment on the grounds of religion, conviction or nationality, is to be deemed discrimination. I am afraid that this may be self-defeating. In Swedish law on measures to combat ethnic discrimination, it is expressly stated that, in using the term ethnic affiliation, the law means that someone belongs to a group of persons of the same race, skin colour, national or ethnic origin or confession. There is a danger that what we believe to be an extension of the definition concerned may, in actual fact, be a restriction of it. The general interpretation is, in fact, that ethnic affiliation embraces nationality. I shall not, therefore, be voting for the present amendment. It contradicts what I properly consider to be the case."@en1

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