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"Mr President, as you know, I am the co-rapporteur with Mrs Buitenweg on this important directive on behalf of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs. I hope that you will rule that the vote, as per our agenda agreed on Monday, will go ahead and I have two points to make to our colleagues in the PPE in that respect.
The first is this: since this directive was first proposed, the whole furore across the European Union because of events in Austria and elsewhere, where the extreme right has come forward, has caused us, as a Parliament, with the widest possible across-party support, to work with the Council and the Commission to agree an accelerated timetable to enable this directive to go through to provide the strongest possible response to the racist and extremist threats that undermine our combined values. That deal with the Council and with the Portuguese Presidency said that we would agree in this Parliament this week prior to the Council of Ministers’ meeting in June. If we fail to meet that commitment, what does that say to the racists?
And my second point: we talk about the dignity of Parliament. What about the dignity of black and ethnic minority people subject to racial harassment, victimisation and discrimination?"@en1
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