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"Mr President, increasing the level of mobility and inclusion of people with disabilities is a laudable and, I believe, an achievable objective. We are told that the current economic crisis has had a disproportionately negative impact on people from marginalised groups: unemployment rates for Europe’s 80 million people with disabilities are twice as high as those for people without. Thus, the issue needs to be addressed with some urgency, but I cannot agree with the Commissioner that this can only be achieved at EU level.
I very much support the direction of this report but believe that it goes too far in calling for unnecessary initiatives at supranational level. We should not use the current crisis as a reason for increasing bureaucracy and red tape. In this report, we call for, among other things, the creation of a European disability board, but without any clear setting-out of what such a board should do, other than that it should meet regularly. The calls on Member States to adopt legal and financial measures to support the employment of disabled people and the call for detailed measures on institutional care and provision of housing benefits stray well into Member States’ territory.
I would be happy with a statement of general principles, but this report is far too detailed and prescriptive and risks creating a tangled bureaucracy where simplicity would be a better remedy. Initiatives for increasing the employment opportunities for those with disabilities must come from Member States, each able to adapt to its own national traditions and social customs. Legislation which tries to help everyone, with its overarching supranational one-size-fits-all nature, often helps none."@en1
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