Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-05-18-Speech-4-283"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-05-18"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Vote2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000518.12.4-283"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-05-18-Speech-4-2842
lpv:speaker	lp:Erik Meijer2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Socialistische Partij (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member_of_the_bureau; EUL/NGL (1999-10-13--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Slovak Republic Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, people are different, yet of equal value. In our opinion, human society should be based on solidarity, human dignity and equality. Everyone is entitled to this. Unfortunately, there is a long tradition of unequal treatment, first and foremost by people who have the power to make other people dependent on them. They can treat those who are dependent on them unequally by rewarding or punishing them for features which are out of their control. This was not only done by slave owners and colonial military, but has also been the tactic of employers and those with political authority. There is also discrimination if the basic requirements of people are made unnecessarily scarce. If everyone has to fight for a job, a place in education or house, a battle of interests will ensue. People then start to think along the lines of: if the others were not here, there would be more for us. From a racist angle, the question then simply is: who can have those scarce provisions and who cannot? Anyone belonging to a different group can be seen as an unwanted competitor on the job or housing market. In Western Europe, employers and the police are still ruled by prejudice and a tendency to treat people unequally. In addition, there are groups who seek political gain from scarcity and short-sightedness by setting people against each other. The fact that in the recently formed new states of Eastern Europe, the language of workers and farmers has become the language of the state and education, forms part of the necessary democratisation process but should not go hand in hand with discriminating against, and even driving out, minorities living within the particular state’s territory. Everyone is entitled to protection from those seeking political and economic gain from discrimination. Vital tools for achieving this are suffrage for newcomers, humane treatment of political refugees, equal treatment of all residents of the European Union, irrespective of their nationality, and the reversal of the burden of proof in legal cases. The Confederal Group of the European United Left/Nordic Green Left has opted in favour of maximum reinforcement of the position of the victims of discrimination and against all attempts to prejudice this protection."@en1

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