8
Feb
2024
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Working conditions of teachers in the EU (debate)
(IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, with regard to the issues raised by my colleague Montserrat, I would like to know the intentions of the European Commission in order to achieve the European Education Area in practice by 2025, including by protecting more effectively the right to mobility of the teaching profession achieved in the various Member States. A possibility provided for in Directive 35/2005, but in fact discriminated against in many countries, such as – I am sorry to point out once again – Italy. The right to mobility is severely restricted by the recent Law 74 of 2023, which concerns the award of fixed-term contracts for teachers with a foreign qualification. What is at stake is the total absence of homogeneous EU systems for recognising teaching experience in all European countries. I ask whether it is not appropriate to adopt, also for the teaching profession, the system of automatic recognition provided for in Articles 10 and 21 of Directive 36, currently provided only for certain professions. The ambitions of the European Union are to be welcomed, but let us begin by guaranteeing freedom of movement and establishment for workers. In Italy, 20 000 teachers are discriminated against. Concepts such as "equivalence" and "equivalence of titles" are virtually unknown in my beloved Italy.