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"Mr President, Commissioner, what we are now in the process of doing is translating Article 13 of the Treaty into practical politics. We did this first with the proposal concerning discrimination on the grounds of race and ethnic origin, and now we are moving on to the action plan and discrimination in the workplace.
I want to begin by thanking both rapporteurs, Mr Mann and Mr Cashman, for their quite excellent reports. I want to pause and consider a special group, namely the disabled. I have taken an interest in this issue since I was a member of the Swedish Parliament and we carried out a major investigation which resulted in a proposal to combat discrimination in the workplace.
We then looked at unemployment, which at that period was generally very low in Sweden, and compared it with unemployment specifically among the disabled. At that time, we had an overall unemployment figure of 2 per cent among the population as a whole. Among the most severely disabled, unemployment stood at 70 per cent.
It is still the case that the most severely disabled barely figure in the labour market. They
discriminated against at the present time. This type of legislation is therefore needed, and often it is only minor measures that are required. We often talk about the internal market and young people’s opportunities to study and work throughout Europe. But what is the situation for young people who are disabled? What opportunity do they have to work in the internal market, to study in different countries and to pursue their personal development? We are at present discriminating in this area. It is therefore important that we tackle this discrimination. This should be done in relation to a number of areas. The disabled are also discriminated against when it comes to gaining access to restaurants and cultural institutions. The matter must therefore be followed up.
One final point. The disabled are incredibly important when it comes to organisations. Because organisations are important in this process, I hope that the amendment which I tabled, to the effect that more than one organisation should have a share of the grants, and which was adopted by the Committee on Citizens’ Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs will also be that amendment which is finally adopted."@en1
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