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"Mr President, I would agree with what the Commissioner has said about the need to develop our own skills base within the European Union. That is the topic of the next debate this afternoon. Of course, we need to actually do more to retain the highly-qualified people that we have, but this is never going to be a perfect match. As the Commission figures show, there are major shortages. I would add engineers to his list, and if we want to move further in terms of a just transition towards a low-carbon economy, engineers are people that we need. They do not all have to be men.
But the group that we are talking about very much this afternoon are people who actually do have choices about where they go, and some of the proposed changes to the Blue Card sound very positive. Indeed, a number of them were argued for by some of us in this Chamber the first time round – I am sure Mr Moraes will remember that. But when this Blue Card was coming into place, again at the beginning, one of the things that we were told was that people who have choices were often put off coming to the European Union because they actually perceived it as a place where they would experience racism, where they would experience xenophobia and where they would not be made welcome.
Would the Commission like to comment on whether he feels that the European Union has moved on to become a more welcoming environment, or indeed whether the integration proposals that he has are going to work as part of a two-way street? That needs to cover attitudes here as well. We do need to look at the issues around social inclusion and at how the different funding mechanisms we have work together to actually make sure that no group is excluded."@en1
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