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"I abstained from the vote on this report, which amends the criteria of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund.
This fund is used to finance a number of social plans, with the specific aim of helping to train workers who have been made redundant and of facilitating their return to work. It is therefore difficult to vote against, but the very name of the fund already covers an entire programme, and I refuse to back a scheme that encourages social dumping, among other things, within the European Union. Worse, it is the redundancies made from large multinationals as a result of stock market developments that are the specific targets of this fund, when multinationals are the ones who should be paying for the reintegration of their employees.
The European peoples hit hard by this crisis do not expect the European Union to give them handouts or to replace the Member States in their role as guarantors of national solidarity. Rather, they expect it to finally build a social Europe that ensures that workers’ rights are put before shareholders’ interests.
I note, however, that the European Parliament is seeking further guarantees to ensure that the appropriations cannot be used indirectly to benefit multinationals that lay people off, as it has already done in the past with Unilever in particular. The Fralib workers expect better."@en1
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