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"Madam President, today we are holding a debate on a Dutch website that openly incites hatred and xenophobia against Eastern European workers.
Do you have problems with Eastern European immigrants? Have you lost your job to a Pole, a Bulgarian, a Romanian or other Eastern European? We want to know. That is what you can read on the site. That leaves us speechless; it is incitement to racial hatred. It also seems that the website is receiving more than 10 000 complaints per day.
It is the work of a far-right party – which would be serious enough in itself – but, as has already been said, it is, in fact, a member of the parliamentary coalition that supports the current Dutch Government, which is refusing to condemn it.
The Danish Presidency and the Commission have just condemned this initiative, but you continue to refer the matter back to the Member States and their courts. I thought that the Commission was the Guardian of the Treaties, and that free movement and non-discrimination were European Union values. It seems that some values are more important than others, and when it comes to economic matters, when it comes to the free movement of goods or capital or barriers to competition, the Commission is much quicker to condemn. How do you expect the citizens not to wonder about the European Union’s real values?
There is worse, however. Similar practices are developing in many Member States. In Poland, two far-right sites cite a jumbled list of left-wing activists, homosexuals and foreigners as enemies of the race. In Latvia, Russians are targeted because of their registration plates. In both Poland and Latvia, very personal information is circulated about the people concerned. In Luxembourg, a law restricting foreign residents’ access to family allowances has just been adopted. We have already talked about Hungary and Mr Verhofstadt spoke about France. Indeed, our campaigning President of the Republic, after attacking the Roma, wants to hold referenda on immigration and is undermining the Schengen area.
All of this is intolerable. It brings back sad memories, and not just in Eastern Europe. We cannot content ourselves with fine rhetoric; we must take action. It is high time that we did."@en1
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