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"Mr President, Minister, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, despite all the analyses and studies, including those regarding the proper transposition of the anti-discrimination directives, the key elements are still effectiveness and innovation. How is it possible to draft the projected new so-called ‘horizontal directive’, which at the moment is nothing more than an extension beyond the workplace of protection in a number of areas, when the question of positive action is still being regarded in terms of safeguarding non-prohibited measures rather than seeking new measures? There is a small – but too timid – sign of progress in the call for a renewed general commitment in this field, ending with the call for better application of instruments devoted to the Roma, as if invoking something which we have not managed to achieve. Are we just writing rhetoric? In this context, I fear that we are! For example, it seems pointless at this stage putting questions to the Commission and highlighting cases of discrimination or failures on the part of national or sub-national legislation. Too often, indeed almost always, the response merely refers to the existence of European protective legislation: fresh water, no progress, silence! Nonetheless, we are debating the cardinal principal of equal treatment and I am referring to cross-border posted workers. Perhaps the new social agenda is a good exercise, but the package of proposed topics is more reminiscent of a puzzle, comprising cards not yet stacked at the end of a parliamentary term which has finalised a series of measures aimed at a genuinely innovatory project. Talking of discrimination and stereotypes, Minister, please thank your President for the tie."@en1
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