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"Madam President, the Dutch Party for Freedom (PVV), a member of the coalition government, has launched a website where the public can report complaints about immigrants from Central and Eastern Europe in the Netherlands. This is a discriminatory action and creates a serious precedent in terms of European citizens’ rights and freedoms.
The European Commission has made a token response so far, aimed at the Dutch people and not at the Netherlands Government, even though this action is extremely serious because it incites discrimination and xenophobia. Although there are differences between the situation in Hungary and the action taken in the Netherlands, I must say that, in the case of the former, the European Commission has responded quickly, while the latter matter has not elicited the same approach. I note that the Netherlands is adopting yet again an anti-European stance: it is blocking the accession of Romania and Bulgaria to the Schengen area without any justification based on EU legislation, while also breaking its own commitments.
At a time when the Netherlands is the number one investor in Romania, I might well think that it is adopting a discriminatory approach by profiting from economic activities in Romania and at the same time, on the other hand, driving out Romanian citizens working in the Netherlands. The Netherlands understands the free movement of labour as moving in only one direction, thereby ignoring the interests of its own companies in the Netherlands which benefit from the labour of East European citizens. I call on the Commission to respond quickly, commensurate with the gravity of the situation."@en1
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