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"Mr President, tomorrow we are going to be discussing the Stockholm summit which concentrated in part on social inclusion. This communication and report are very important in this context, and I too would like to thank the rapporteur for the excellent work she has done and the breadth of the consultation she has undertaken. These documents provide a welcome addition, as many have said, to the Article 13 Directive relating to equal treatment at work, which, of course, presupposes the ability to get work or rather to be offered it, and a more inclusive attitude in society. Therefore, I welcome the recognition of inclusive education within this report and the wider understanding and the breaking down of barriers that we hope will come with it. I feel that many of us adults could also do with such education.
Inclusion, of course, should start with access to information here, access to all parts of our buildings and, as others have said but I also want to repeat, we need to extend inclusion to the freedom of movement. I would particularly recommend paragraphs 22 and 23, on this concerning the mutual recognition of national cards carried by people with disabilities. That is a frequent subject of petitions and correspondence to many of us in this House.
I would also mention, as you might expect from Parliament's rapporteur on the relevant regulation, the need for the exportability of disability benefits for people, not least so that they have the opportunity to meet the financial requirements for residents in some Member States. The reasons for the current practice are not well understood and practice is extremely unjust in that it removes the freedom of choice which other citizens have had. I echo the calls for a further directive which really brings this into a whole rights-based approach."@en1
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