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"Mr President, the issue we are considering today is of the greatest importance, not only because it attempts to guarantee people with disabilities the fundamental right to enjoy full access to all aspects of life – with dignity – which should be guaranteed for all people, disabled or not. This issue is becoming even more important, given that there are more than 37 million people in the European Union with some kind of disability. It is crucial that we adopt all the measures necessary to guarantee everyone genuine freedom of movement, including not only the opportunity to travel in transport that has been adapted for the purpose, but also to study, work, be part of society and live in dignity in any of the European Union’s Member States.
It is particularly important that we establish the conditions necessary to guarantee everyone access to jobs that provide rights, by making access to training easier, by producing incentives and by undertaking positive action in order to combat unemployment, which, amongst the disabled, is three times higher than the European Union average. It is also crucial that we take account of the need to prevent new forms of social exclusion, specifically ‘info-exclusion’, which requires an action plan for the real participation of disabled people in the information society, in addition to guaranteeing the right of access of the disabled to electronic and telecommunications services and equipment. European research centres must also play a more active role in conducting technological research into improving the quality of life of disabled people.
Combating discrimination against the disabled requires practical measures to support families that have one or more disabled members, and the establishment of a ‘school for all’, which will ensure that disabled children can integrate, and which will also provide all the necessary support, with, where necessary, specialist teachers and specialist teaching methods. We also need to provide real impetus at legislative level and to practical actions, incorporating into various policies the integration of disabled people and the participation of their organisations in defining, monitoring and assessing these policies.
We therefore agree with most of the proposals contained in the report by Mrs Hermange, whom I congratulate and whom we shall help to the best of our ability, specifically through a proposal that we are now presenting, in the hope that the Commission and the Council acknowledge the importance of paying close attention to this issue and to achieving the full integration of disabled people into all aspects of life and take advantage of the plan to make the year 2003 the European Year of Disabled Citizens to raise the awareness of the general public and Member States about this issue."@en1
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