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"Mr President, Commissioner, for months we have had some extraordinary information relating to the football World Cup. Forty thousand women were expected to be brought from Eastern Europe and North Africa for the purposes of sexual exploitation and, furthermore, in the cities hosting matches large premises were being prepared that would be able to accommodate many clients at a time.
The women expected largely lived in extreme poverty in their countries of origin and had been recruited by deception and false promises of a better life that they were never going to see.
On 17 January, this Parliament asked for appropriate measures to be taken to prevent the trafficking of women into forced prostitution. Furthermore, on 13 March, this House called upon the media and sports stars to help in the fight against the sexual exploitation of women and in promoting a change of mindset, in accordance with sport’s values of solidarity.
Many women’s organisations are carrying out campaigns to increase awareness amongst the citizens. We have listened to what you have to say, Commissioner, we support and applaud your initiatives, but they must not be one-off measures. What has happened to the plan adopted to prevent and combat people trafficking? We in the institutions must fight hard because it is intolerable that a genuine slave market should be put together in this day and age, right in the heart of Europe.
Big sporting events must no longer be wonderful business opportunities for traffickers in women and for pimps. We must achieve a common position, in order to prevent the least-developed countries from being used as a source of women to be exploited in the rich countries of the European Union.
It is therefore urgent to create a common legal framework for the whole of the European Union and it is essential to create more effective cooperation between countries of origin, transit and destination, because we are dealing with a criminal phenomenon of immense proportions whose networks are usually linked to organised crime.
In order to make progress, Commissioner, we must make more resources available and also turn the fight against the trafficking of women into a priority within the European Union."@en1
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