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"Madam President, on Saturday the European football championship kicks off and the party can begin. But there is a reverse side to the coin. When sporting events of this magnitude take place, illegal trafficking in women and young girls for prostitution always increases. It is therefore important for us to react, and act exactly as we did two years ago with the ‘Red Card to Forced Prostitution’ campaign. It is very important that we get together in the EU and work towards zero tolerance as regards trafficking in human beings. I therefore appeal to all the EU governments which have not yet done so immediately to implement the action plan which the EU developed in 2005 to combat the sex slave trade.
I wish that more countries had legislation on buying sex, for it has a clear preventive effect in curbing the sex slave trade. In addition, I look forward to the report which the Commission is to present on patterns of prostitution in the Member States, and I hope that we shall soon be able to study it.
I want the European football championship, both on and off the pitch, to be imbued with the values which are the lifeblood of sport: comradeship, healthy activity and fair play. Not to condemn reprehensible trafficking in human beings for prostitution is to give it indirect support."@en1
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