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"The Danish Social Democrats in the European Parliament have today voted in favour of the report by Kathalijne Maria Buitenweg on the Council’s directive for implementing the principle of equal treatment for all, irrespective of race or ethnic origin. We were delighted to do so, because the European Parliament is hereby complying with its task in connection with implementing Article 13 of the Treaty of Amsterdam.
According to Article 13 of the Treaty, the European Parliament is merely to be heard on this matter. In our voting, it has therefore been important that Parliament’s opinion – both the individual points and the opinion as a whole – should have very broad political backing. We have nonetheless been unable to vote in favour of those amendments directly affecting matters which come within the sphere of the Member States’ criminal law. These matters continue to be national concerns.
In connection with the debate on the report, we have pointed out that the present directive only deals with discrimination on the grounds of race or ethnic origin. But what about all the other protective considerations listed in Article 13 of the Treaty? We are concerned that, by only proceeding on the basis of these two considerations in the present directive, the EU will, in practice, create a hierarchy of possible grounds for discrimination. We would therefore especially draw attention to Amendment No 6 concerning a new consideration which is absolutely crucial for ourselves."@en1
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