MEPs call for comprehensive anti-discrimination law
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Despite opposition from members of a centre-right party of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament, the Committee on Employment has changed in favour of the new legislation on the prohibition of all forms of discrimination. In the draft report, the Parliament is considering legislation against discrimination actually help people with disabilities and people of ethnicity, religion or sexual orientation. But a major conflict between the deputies Social Democrats and conservatives on the issue of whether the existing legislation is sufficient or should be amended or supplemented. On the one hand, Elizabeth Lynne, the British Liberal Democrats, the MEP in charge of the case, welcomed the intention of the Commission, with the presentation of the new anti-discrimation. Lynne proposed that the directive on equal treatment, “the foundation upon which the fight against discrimination a major part of the policy of building”. It states that “any proposal for a new directive to prohibit direct discrimination in all spheres of life”. However, the EPP-ED Group, MEPs resolutely against the Commission’s plans. German MEP Thomas Mann, an amendment proposed that “an extension of the current European legal framework for combating measures should be rejected for the time being, given the enormous amount of bureaucracy, the implementation of the existing legislation is quite out of proportion to the results. ” Nevertehless, April 2, 2008, the Committee on Employment, especially with the support of the Socialists, Liberals, the Greens and the centre-left deputies to the proposal of the EPP group. |