Text tabled : A7-0043/2012

  Nathalie Griesbeck (ALDE), in writing. – (FR) I voted for this report, which makes two noteworthy improvements to the coordination of social security systems within the European Union. The first is the clarification concerning access to unemployment benefits, enabling self-employed frontier workers to receive unemployment benefits in the country in which they have been working if they are resident in another Member State where there is no unemployment benefit system. The second is the introduction of the ‘home base’ concept for aircrew members (pilots, air hostesses, etc.), which will put an end to the social dumping that low-cost airlines practise against their personnel and thus guarantee fair social security for all aircrew personnel. As a native of a very ‘cross-border’ region, I fully support any initiative that strengthens the mobility of European citizens within the European Union, so that they can travel, move and work throughout the EU without administrative barriers.