Question for written answer E-009688-16
to the Commission
Rule 130
Dominique Martin (ENF)

To strengthen the single market, the Commission is seeking to spur the workforce into becoming more mobile and evolving in response to the skill requirements of business. The creation of a form of mobile and inexpensive sub-proletariat has become essential to meeting these aims, and explains the Commission’s bias in favour of migration flows.

The establishment of a European qualifications framework (EQF) is supposed to enable workers to validate their formal and informal learning processes throughout Europe. The EQF is supposed to help migrants and the long-term unemployed to find employment opportunities throughout Europe. This initiative is complicated to introduce, and the Member States are having trouble adapting to it.

— How does the Commission intend to protect citizens from mobility that they have not chosen, i.e. a new form of economic migration within Europe?

— Why is the Commission considering adjusting skills to the requirements of business, rather than encouraging the passing on of knowledge, particularly in the fields of handicrafts and traditional trades, as a practical way of exiting the crisis?