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"Mr President, the number of people in gainful employment in the EU will decrease from 303 million to 280 million by 2030. As the birth rate is continuing to decline, while the number of pensioners increases, it is probable that there will be adverse effects, and not only on economic growth. Will increased immigration from third countries help here? Which workers to accept is for the Member States to decide, and that is also in the interests of the countries from which they come, who often lose significant potential. Controlled immigration makes it possible to see who is coming onto the labour markets. There must be great sensitivity in approximating conditions of entry at EU level, and this must be done only progressively, using together tried and tested procedures in recruitment and admissions policies, as is stated in one of the amendments tabled by the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats. On this I am in absolute agreement with Mr Hernández Mollar. There is a need for dialogue with the social partners, as well as with the authorities that are responsible for the local labour market.
The Member States must act with far more agreement and far greater decisiveness if legitimate employment is to be permitted and illegal employment prevented. The fact is that the latter compels many workers to accept intolerable pay and living conditions. Immigration alone, of course, will not safeguard our social security systems. If, for example, there is to be any marked increase in the birth rate, both mothers and fathers need far better legal safeguards. All in all, we all need society to be more family-friendly. Better-qualified workers and an increase in the number of jobs are dependent on the labour markets and the education and training systems being reformed. Although our rapporteur, Mr Moraes, was willing to find consensus, and incorporated many of my amendments into compromises that promise to gain majorities, the new amendments originating from our PPE-DE Group appear not to be supported by a majority in his own group.
As a number of Members have said, one key point is that each Member State is itself responsible for making its own local election rules. That must continue to be the case in future. Only citizens of the EU may vote in the elections to the European Parliament. Let us beware of eccentricities that amount to defamation. If there is no support for this position, some of us will find it very difficult to vote for the report as a whole."@en1
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