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"As the title of the report indicates, Europe is divided into new and old Member States. The report discusses social inclusion in the new Member States, yet it does not address the general social problems faced by Europe as a whole. Unemployment is a cruel fate for anyone, no matter where they live in Europe. It gives rise to many other related phenomena, be it mental stress, poverty or homelessness.
In one part of the report, the rapporteur draws our attention to insufficient workforce mobility. Yet Europe’s response to the mobility of unemployed persons is to impose what are known as protective or transitional measures. One of the serious reservations many old Member States had about enlargement was a fear of ‘economic migration’ and of the threat to jobs for their citizens.
What we have seen to date indicates that none of the countries that adopted transitional measures have so far filed any complaints regarding violation or avoidance of these measures. The countries that did not impose transitional measures on our countries, on the other hand, have not yet experienced any problems with an increased inflow of cheap labour. Moreover, many countries are benefiting from this cheap, well-educated and multilingual workforce, rather than complaining about it. One such example is the granting of ‘green cards’ to computer experts, or the massive recruitment of nurses for old people’s homes in the United Kingdom. Social inclusion should not only be high on our agenda during the debate on this report; we should also apply this principle with regard to other reports considered by this House.
If I may, I should like to take this opportunity to mention the debate on problems relating to working time and compliance with the principle that all working time must be regarded as legal working time, and that all overtime should be properly remunerated. However we conceal overtime, we tolerate a situation in which one employee works from morning to night, while others have no chance of finding employment and become homeless."@en1
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