Together we create a more inclusive future

At last night’s plenary session, the European Parliament debated the implementation of the Council Directive on establishing a general framework for equal treatment in employment and occupation. In his speech, Fidesz MEP Ádám Kósa praised the text of the parliamentary report for pointing in the direction of the post-2021 disability strategy.

Kósa finds it a great achievement that the report by Katrin Langensiepen, a German Green MEP, looked at the implementation of the directive in recent years, while setting a number of viable and usable goals for the future. In his speech, the Fidesz MEP called it symbolic that the European Parliament would adopt the report just as the European Commission had presented the Disability Strategy 2021-2030.

“As an MEP since 2009 I have been in constant consultation with disability advocacy organizations in Hungary and internationally, because I am convinced that they themselves know best what they need. I followed this principle already in 2010, when I was rapporteur of the report on the European Disability Strategy for the period 2010–2020”, said Kósa.

Kósa also praised the person responsible for the report: “The result of our joint work includes a new, human rights-based approach to education, horizontal data collection on people with disabilities, who have so far been left out of statistics, and communication accessibility, which has so far focused primarily on physical accessibility”.