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"Madam President, I too would like to express my best wishes for your term of office. It is with great pleasure that I speak on behalf of the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats, who sent me to this beautiful city of Strasbourg to attempt to remind people of their existence.
Mr Kauppi’s document, whose content, proposals and analysis of the difficult situation of seafarers I fully support, takes me back in time to when I was the age Mrs Kauppi is now. I was not a member of a parliament, I sailed in the ships which take American tourists from New York to the Bahamas and vice versa. Being a seafarer myself, I met a number of people who worked on the ships. At that time, seafarers were fortunate individuals with extremely high wages; jobs as crewmembers
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both passenger and cargo ships and even oil tankers were sought after. However, now, 35 years on, I have met friends who used to sail with me again and they tell me that everything is different now, for the ships that sail the seas of Europe are now manned by Indonesian and Colombian seafarers and seafarers from all the world’s poor States, and their wages are a maximum of EUR 100/150 per month, that is less than 10% of the wages of European seafarers. I therefore feel we must work to ensure that, whatever the flag flying on the ships sailing the European seas, the crewmembers have agreements laying down the same wages as those of workers on dry land. Seafarers must not be exploited on European ships just because they come from poor regions of the world."@en1
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