08/01/2009: Marie Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou (EPP-ED, Greece) submitted a written question to Commissioner Spidla relating to the October 2008 issue of the Social Agenda, published every month by the Directorate General for Employment Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities of the European Commission. In this issue, fields such as education, social and family policies, freedom of expression of religious beliefs are dealt with as if they were regulated at a European level, regardless of the fact that the principle of subsidiarity applies to them.
The question quotes specific extracts of various articles in which it is taken for granted that a) labour relations are going to undergo changes b) family is not perceived as an essential factor of social cohesion and its decline within society is presented as inevitable c) European legislative measures have been announced in the field of education and finally d) the adoption of the proposal for a Directive on anti-discrimination will most probably result in the progressive banning of religious symbols and clothing worn in public.
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Marie Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou MEP
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