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"As usual, this Parliament is focusing on minorities, preferably the minorities from outside Europe who are already given excessive assistance. I refer to those minorities whose presence results in an enormous social cost for society as the vast majority of their members do not work. Due to their family and social situations, they have priority for social housing to the detriment of less well-off European citizens. Their massive and continuing arrival – 200 000 a year in France alone – inevitably creates tensions in rents for an inadequate housing stock. I would have preferred the report to emphasise the 42 million Europeans deemed poor and also the 116 million threatened with poverty. These figures are frightening and are not just due to the crisis, because the downward pressure on Europeans’ incomes goes back a long way: competition from immigrant workers, competition from countries with low wages, ECB policies against hypothetical wage inflation, pension reforms and so on. The general impoverishment of pensioners, unskilled or low-skilled workers, the working class and, increasingly, the middle classes, is the direct consequence of your policies. There is, of course no mention of this in this report. I therefore voted against."@en1
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