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"Mr President, the Chair of our Committee, Mr Deprez, spoke for so many of us in this House when he said that this was not a report about sectional interests or a report of the Left, but a report by Mrs Buitenweg, which was full of thoughtfulness, sensitivity and compromise where people were concerned. The rapporteur has created a report which does not bind business or over-regulate business, as we have seen in the long journey of the two previous directives – the Race Equality Directive and the Employment Directive – which, I would say to Mr Weber, has not bound or over-regulated businesses in Germany or in my country.
She has created a directive about fundamental rights, which do not create that bureaucracy which Mr Špidla spoke about. I tabled amendments on strengthening equality bodies, which already exist. In the United Kingdom we have the Equality and Human Rights Commission, who recently supported the case of a European citizen – Sharon Coleman, the mother of a disabled child – who brought a case against her employer for disability discrimination by association, something fundamental to Mrs Buitenweg’s report. The European Court of Justice ruled in her favour and, as a result of this judgement, we have extended rights to Britain’s carers – people who care for disabled people.
I would say to people in this House that you will grow old, you may be disabled and you may care for somebody with a disability. That is the reality for tens of millions of European citizens. That is what this report is about. It is not about sectional interests or concerns about who is going to dominate one other section of society. I would say that this report is not Left or Right – it is about fundamental rights. As Mr Cashman said in his speech, people out there, before the European elections, will look to see whether we protected fundamental rights without doing anything bad to our businesses and our economy. That is what this report does. Let us support it. It is practical and it is right."@en1
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