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"Mr President, we shall vote for the few recommendations that defend fundamental rights, denounce racism and xenophobia, or that oppose the death penalty, even though these will probably remain as nothing more than recommendations. How can we speak of fundamental rights, however, when the right to employment and the right to a decent salary are not guaranteed because decision belongs to a moneyed minority who have the majestic power to close their businesses and plunge their employees into poverty? What is the point of comments on solidarity when, in France, for example, on the pretext of security, we exacerbate laws against the poor instead of fighting poverty? The report itself illustrates what these calls for equality and dignity are worth, as it would like to increase the fight against illegal immigration on the basis that it considers this to be the source of workers who are deprived of their rights and subjected to unacceptable conditions of employment and exploitation. Why, then, does the report not propose to fight those who impose these unacceptable conditions of exploitation? Why does it not propose to fight the governments who deprive migrants of fundamental rights? You speak of rights and freedoms. For the most impoverished, however, and even for the working-class majority of the population, these are hollow words. In this society, which is based on trade, money confers all the rights, including the right to crush the rights and freedoms of others."@en1

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