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"Ladies and gentlemen, the proposed directive on the implementation of the principle of equal treatment, which prohibits any kind of discrimination outside the workplace, is a superfluous regulation which we should not discuss at all. I should like to point out that discrimination is already prohibited by three EU directives, the UN Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms, the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Equal treatment is also governed by the Amsterdam Treaty and the Lisbon Strategy.
I should also like to point out that the directive requires two very dangerous things. It requires positive discrimination and it requires the principle of transferring the burden of proof from the prosecutor to the defendant. This is contrary to European legal traditions and may give rise to injustices and new wrongs.
Ladies and gentlemen, I am convinced that the European Union is still a democratic and civilised area, where people with real abilities receive recognition, and an area which offers a helping hand to the weak. However, human capabilities, either innate or developed through education, are individual and different in every person and thus logically unequal. If we try to eliminate inequalities of this type through regulation, then we are arrogantly overlooking cultural diversity and interfering with the natural development of society, and worst of all, we are putting equality above the freedom of choice. The directive on equal treatment should therefore not come into being at all."@en1
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