Ideas, debate, progress: Notes from a PES activist

• Challenges - 30-11-2006 14:37:10 - Only logged activists can post a comment, please sign in or register here

  The aging population and small numbers of new generation to take over is a European challenge and will in combination with the structural changes of the market implicate a need of a larger and more rapid mobilisation of labour force cross geographic and social boundaries. In Denmark and elsewhere labour from former eastern Europe especially Poland are entering the labour market, but often ‘under cover’ to a very low price and no rights or duties. They are in my view very much welcome, but to the same price, rights and duties as for anyone else. This is a problem for the trade union to solve, but also the socialist parties have their duty to put it on the political agenda. Another problem Europe is facing is the minority of Roma’s who has been living in poverty for centuries marginalised by all nations. They are entering into Europe capitals and larger cities to try to survive and they are well organised. Illegal trade with women into prostitution is not a new phenomenon, but it is a growing problem and extremely rough and violent slavery. We, as socialist, need to face these kinds of challenges by thinking in diversity and multi-cultural terms rather than equality in the traditional way of thinking.

   

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