Adequate and effective application and enforcement of Article 45 TFEU and Regulation (EU) No 492/2011, as well as awareness of rights, are key elements in protecting the rights and equal treatment of Union workers and members of their family, whereas poor enforcement undermines the effectiveness of Union rules applicable in this area and endangers the rights and protection of Union workers and members of their family.

– (PT) Madam President, after all the sound bites during the European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion, the European Commission continues to demonstrate complete indifference when faced with worsening poverty, particularly child poverty, unemployment and massive increases in the numbers of poor workers due to precarious and poorly paid work.

(FR) That is why, Commissioner, at a time when the unemployment rate in Europe is going to exceed the 10% mark, when there are more than one and a half billion poor workers in the world and when the crisis is hitting a further 200 million poor workers, it is time for the leaders to focus on the social consequences of the crisis and to give priority to employment.

However, given that, as you yourself said, unemployment reached 10% in 2009, 45% of unemployed Europeans remain out of work for more than a year and flexible forms of employment have mushroomed in the absence of a clear institutional framework, with the result that there are 19 million poor unemployed, we should like to know, because you have always been very precise and I welcome that, what specific, immediate measures and active and passive employment policies you intend to adopt at European level, in accordance with the principles and spirit of the European social model, in order to address the question of poor workers and unemployed per ...[+++]sons, especially the long-term unemployed, who face problems of immediate survival.

Reflecting, as it does, a pathetic, exclusively pro-European way of thinking, this text contains everything that is responsible for Europeans’ growing hostility to your system: the little piece, written in a roundabout way, about the unemployed being responsible for their unemployment – ‘poor swines’ as Gabin said in La Traversée de Paris – that about the benefits of immigration, which come at the cost of plundering of elites in the developing world and of pressure on wages in Europe; that about the necessary reform of our social protection system ‘in the light of the development of global dynamics’, which obviously means that they are doomed; the little piece about random acts of discrimination, when the most scandalous discrimination is ...[+++] directed at Europeans, on their own soil; that about growth, with no mention ever being made of purchasing power and consumption, of the explosion in the number of poor workers or of the responsibilities of the euro; and, finally, that about ‘blessed globalisation’, which is an oxymoron.

Reflecting, as it does, a pathetic, exclusively pro-European way of thinking, this text contains everything that is responsible for Europeans’ growing hostility to your system: the little piece, written in a roundabout way, about the unemployed being responsible for their unemployment – ‘poor swines’ as Gabin said in La Traversée de Paris – that about the benefits of immigration, which come at the cost of plundering of elites in the developing world and of pressure on wages in Europe; that about the necessary reform of our social protection system ‘in the light of the development of global dynamics’, which obviously means that they are doomed; the little piece about random acts of discrimination, when the most scandalous discrimination is ...[+++] directed at Europeans, on their own soil; that about growth, with no mention ever being made of purchasing power and consumption, of the explosion in the number of poor workers or of the responsibilities of the euro; and, finally, that about ‘blessed globalisation’, which is an oxymoron.