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"Mr President, the report we are debating in fact proposes making the rights enjoyed by migrant workers fully comparable to those enjoyed by European citizens. These rights truly underpin our economies and social systems.
In some cases, the measures contained in this report would even give workers from third countries staying in a Member State preferential treatment, such as tax benefits and ad hoc forms of assistance to enter the job market.
To be perfectly honest, I think the European and national institutions should support our own citizens first and foremost, especially in an economic and social crisis such as the one we are experiencing now. Adding to the range of rights enjoyed by third-country workers would mean ignoring the terrible situation in which tens of millions of families find themselves in our countries today, and turning our backs on our own vulnerable groups, such as the young, women and unemployed Europeans.
The statistics on poverty in Europe reveal a striking picture: over 60 million people are at risk of poverty; in other words, 15% of the population have to make do on less than 60% of the national median income. One in eight people lives in a family in which nobody is working, and one in five children is at risk of poverty.
Faced with this situation, European do-gooders are thinking about how to sort things out for third-country workers, but in actual fact they do not even know how to ensure decent living standards for our own workers."@en1
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