12
Mar
2025
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Union of Skills: striving for more and better opportunities to study, train or work in the EU and to bring our talents back home (debate)
Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Vice-President Roxana Mînzatu, this dossier requires a comprehensive approach. Too many variables are left out. Failure starts at a young age. What is the role of parents? Do they accompany their children in their schooling or hinder them? What are we doing about this? Nothing. What do we do about the problem of the bad climate in the classroom, which hinders learning? Nothing. Is Europe sufficiently valuing successful young people, as the United States does, not to mention wages? No, no. Under these conditions, it is natural for the best to leave and leave the European Union. For girls to be referred to the engineering professions – I am an engineer myself – the first obstacle is the lack of self-confidence, which is transmitted within families and also, it must be said, by some of the teachers themselves, many of whom are women in the early school years. This determines the rest of the schooling. What are we doing on this? Nothing. There would be a lot to say, but I would like to end on one point: Let’s stop stealing their talents from Africa and the Maghreb, as in doing so you condemn these countries to poverty and despair, and this leads to the explosion of migration flows that destabilise Europe. I call for a return to common sense.