Traduction de «Groupe de travail sur l'économie clandestine » (Français → Anglais) :

We must, as you said, Mr Vice-President, apply zero tolerance to illegal employment in order to reduce the underground economy that creates the ‘call effect’.

C. whereas women immigrants, as a general rule, encounter significant problems in integrating, primarily in terms of difficulty in accessing the labour market, low employment rates and high rates of unemployment, employment in temporary or low-paid jobs, often without social and economic protection or in sectors of the "grey" economy and undeclared employment, limited linguistic skills, a low rate of participation in basic and, above all, tertiary education, limited participation in social, political, trade union and cultural life of ...[+++]the host country, poverty and social exclusion; whereas, nonetheless, a by no means negligible number of young woman graduates from the higher education systems of their countries come to take relatively unskilled jobs in the European Union, for example as domestic staff, as a consequence of the high rate of female unemployment in their countries and the low pay for the professions and jobs of their skills and qualifications,

Today, more women than men come to Europe, as there is a great demand for workers in the operational service and healthcare sector. However, the labour market in question is also characterised by a large grey economy in which the normal rules for pay, working hours and the working environment do not apply.

Good – very good, we will say – but we Radicals nevertheless believe that instead of setting or reintroducing impressive objectives, we should do useful and fair things right now: welfare systems are in urgent need of immediate reform, and for many States constitute, in addition to a serious injustice for future generations, a real time bomb for the sustainability of public finances; we need to liberalise the markets in key sectors such as energy, transport, postal services and the professions; we need to create a truly integrated European financial market; ...[+++] there must be drastic cuts in the burdens weighing down, in particular, small and medium-sized businesses in Europe – tax burdens and bureaucratic burdens in terms of employment regulations – and which are one of the reasons for which a substantial number of European entrepreneurs and microentrepreneurs – I am referring mainly, but not exclusively, to Italy – are driven into the underground economy, a type of economy which evades regulation, which evades legality precisely because of the excessive burdens which are imposed.

Joint working groups in sectors of mutual interest. EU/Iraq working groups could be set up to discuss cooperation in areas such as economic, statistics and trade issues, energy (including electricity), transport, technical regulations and standards, information society, human rights and rule of law, migration and counter-terrorism.

Undeclared work undermines the financing and delivery of social protection and public services. Tackling undeclared work requires a policy-mix combining both preventive actions and the application of sanctions. Policy initiatives to be promoted could include simplification of procedures and legislation; increased public awareness of the possible negative effects of undeclared work and the shadow economy; exchange of information and increased communication; co-operation between authorities; lowering the tax burden on labour; effective surveillance and sanctions; and the full implementation of the Action Plan to combat illegal migrat ...[+++]ion [11].