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"Mr President, the rapporteur, and indeed the report itself, deserve credit for highlighting key issues and showing a great deal of sensitivity. To reiterate a point made by Mr Cabrnoch and Mrs in ’t Veld, however, the report’s exclusive focus on the new Member States is a glaring error, since the problems it discusses affect the EU as a whole. I should like to cite just one example, that being my own country, Poland. Over 60% of judges in Poland are women, and given that this is a profession of considerable social standing, it is hard to see how there can be any talk of exclusion. Similarly, women account for over 60% of doctors in the country, and Poland has more businesswomen in managerial roles than any other country in Europe. This begs the question of why a distinction has been made in the report between the old and the new Member States.
I should also like to alert this House to the fact that events of the kind we saw a few days ago in France, when Perpignan became a battlefield between Arabs and Roma, would be unthinkable in either Poland or a great many other new Member States. In my opinion, the cause of the clashes was social exclusion. What is more, acts of anti-Semitism of the sort that occur regularly in France and Germany would also be unthinkable in the new Member States.
The primary cause of social exclusion is destruction of the social fabric, by which I also mean the weakening of the role of religion. Religion, the Catholic Church and other religious organisations play an enormous role in weaving the social fabric and preventing social exclusion. Once again, my own country is perhaps the best example of this phenomenon, as both the divorce rate and the suicide rate in Poland are among the lowest in Europe. This shows that social exclusion is not in fact one of the country’s most pressing social problems.
The modern-day state is taking on too many duties that it is incapable of performing. The report says that the Member States should mobilise non-governmental organisations, confessional associations and the Church to participate in combating social exclusion, and yet it must be stated quite clearly that the state cannot issue orders of this kind. The state’s primary task should be to avoid interfering in such matters.
The final point I should like to make is that the term ‘social dumping’ appears in the report. This unfortunate phrase, which I find quite intolerable, now appears to have replaced the term ‘healthy competition’."@en1
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