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What the European authorities pompously call fundamental rights is, at best, but the vaguest of notions, the content of which boils down to precious little for workers and the most vulnerable inhabitants of Europe. Apart from a few rare exceptions, the report does not show any steps forward, but instead steps backwards in this area due, more often than not, to the required policies applied by the States that want to make us believe that they are guaranteeing real rights for the people of Europe.
Those who are denied the most basic of individual, economic, social or political rights by this society are firstly the minorities and those that it is most hard on are women, children, disabled people, the elderly, homosexuals, asylum seekers, immigrants, members of national minorities etc. For millions of workers, the prospects are unemployment, inadequate wages, arbitrary employers, exploitation, and death in the workplace. For them, where are the fundamental rights on which the European Union is holding forth?
Our vote in favour of the report was motivated by the accuracy of the critical description of the actual state of human rights in Europe, but this does not mean that we share the illusions of its author regarding the capacity of the European Institutions to fundamentally change things."@en1
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