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"Mr President, as shadow rapporteur and a member of the Socialist Group, I first want to express that we cannot vote against a directive that clearly is a small step forward, as well as having won two battles we pursued with the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs, which were the issues of the exporting of pensions and professional training for migrants. We cannot, therefore, vote against it.
However, this is not the directive that we had promised in Tampere and that we had promised for ten years in the Green Paper; this is not the directive for equal rights: there are still very significant exclusions in terms of working and social security rights; decisions still remain in the hands of the Member States, which shouldn’t be discretional in nature, but rather regulated.
Therefore, it is a step forward, but it is not enough; it is very far from the ambition we Europeans should have. We have seen too much of the accountant’s short-termist view, the bureaucrat’s selfish point of view, the view of those who think in the short-term, and not the long term view for the great opportunity for which we have had to set a framework directive so as not to leave anyone or any right out.
That will be for another occasion and we will create a fair law again."@en1
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