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"Madam President, I would like to thank the Commissioner for her commitment to this issue and it is very good to hear that Germany is now coming on board. I would also like to thank my colleagues and the shadows, and the Secretariat of the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM) and ALDE, for all their support and work on this, including those in my own office.
Just a few points. Prostitution: not all those in prostitution have been trafficked and controlling prostitution is not an EU competence. It has been a very fine line to talk about this in the report, but it is part of the market demand and so that is how it has been addressed.
Surrogacy is not trafficking. Forced surrogacy is a crime in anybody’s language and also needs to be tackled.
Migrants: migrants are not always victims of trafficking but their vulnerability and the lack of care that we are affording them make them very easy prey for the traffickers.
Organised crime: yes, this is the fourth largest organised crime. It is much easier to traffic human beings than it is drugs. Police dogs do not smell out trafficked people and for the lady who said that we should get out because it is free movement of people that causes it, the UK is not in Schengen and yet it is still one of Europe’s biggest markets for trafficking people. Traffickers do not care what sort of border control is there; they will work a way around it. We have all to be vigilant on this issue.
I look forward to building on the progress that has been achieved by the Office of the Anti-Trafficking Coordinator, Madam Vassiliadou, and for all those who tonight and for the next who knows how long, face heaven knows what, we need all of us to be committed and vigilant and to work to make sure that we catch the traffickers and rescue those who are held in in slavery."@en1
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