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"Mr President, the Commission thinks its plans will help to meet future labour requirements. Joint residence and work permits are to be issued generously. It would be better, however, if residence were linked to specific job opportunities in the labour market. Even then, wholesale migration is unlikely to be the answer. In addition, a bunch of rights are intended to make migrants equal to nationals – in other words, equal working conditions, recognition of professional qualifications, tax relief, trade union rights and equal social benefits.
Who, ladies and gentlemen, is supposed to pay for this? Our indebted euro area countries? Certainly not the migrants, because their income is around 30% lower than that of the average EU citizen. Naturally, this also means that less tax will be paid. Furthermore, migrants are much more likely to suffer unemployment and are less well qualified. Under this system, it is mainly migrants who would benefit from claiming social security – because they are a population group that has a particularly low employment rate and tends to have a higher level of poverty. As a result, migrants would be overrepresented in the social security systems. That will certainly not help our labour markets."@en1
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