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"Legislation to combat all forms of discrimination is another example of would-be progressive legislation adopted by the EU in the social sphere.
In response to a Green Paper from the Commission, Parliament is today adopting an own-initiative report offering its vision of the measures to be implemented to combat discrimination, both in society and in the workplace. As long ago as the year 2000, the EU was adopting two directives (2000/43 and 2000/78) forcing the Member States to provide themselves with legislative and judicial apparatus capable of curbing this phenomenon. Although all the national legislatures have thus been considerably strengthened, work remains to be done, particularly work based on education.
Parliament is therefore putting forward a whole raft of initiatives designed to combat the various forms of direct and indirect discrimination, whether it be based on ethnic origin, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or religious conviction. The idea is to promote better practices to avoid ending up with ‘positive discrimination’ or the quota system advocated by some.
The EU has few competences in the social sphere, but it has to be said that it takes the initiative when it has the means to do so. What we have here is an ambitious document that cocks an additional snook at those who strongly criticise Europe for not having a social dimension."@en1
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