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"Mr President, it is impossible not to be appalled by the ‘anti-Gypsyism’ that holds sway, and is to a certain extent increasing again, particularly in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Bulgaria. It is also, unfortunately, on the rise on certain benches in this Chamber, where it is fed by xenophobic remarks from a certain number of politicians.
I should like to come back, once more, to the French situation.
I am sorry that Ms Reding is absent. It is not part of your brief, Commissioner, but I should have liked her to reply to us in person. A few weeks ago, she took some satisfaction, in fact, from [the fact that] – and I quote – ‘France has fully addressed the Commission’s concerns and introduced the necessary changes in the law’, including, and I quote again, ‘with regard to the safeguards protecting EU citizens from arbitrary expulsions and discriminatory treatment’.
I would say that the Council of Europe has just quite clearly contradicted Ms Reding’s remarks. I am calling on you, if you have not done so already, and on Ms Reding and Ms Radziszewska, to read the report of the European Committee of Social Rights. Some of my fellow Members have already quoted from it. This report contains an exhaustive catalogue of aggravated violations of human rights committed by the French authorities during the summer of 2010 and which continue today in the same circumstances. It has been brought to the attention of the Commission; NGOs have systematically apprised the Commission of these facts. They can be found in their entirety in the report, but the Commission has refused to initiate infringement proceedings on the grounds of discrimination, as had been the intention last autumn.
Is the Commission going to wait for the ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union? The Charter of Fundamental Rights is now legally binding The Commission is the guardian of the treaties, it would seem. Under circumstances such as these, what is the point of the Anti-Discrimination Directive? How, Commissioner, does the Commission hope that it will be possible for national strategies to be implemented under such circumstances in France? Your services have not even been able to identify an interlocutor, yet they have to submit their report by the end of the year. This is self-delusion, a way of deferring the problem …"@en1
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