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THE EXPLOITATION OF LABOUR AND THE EUROPEAN VALUES The decision of the European Parliament and the study that was published on the same day as the statement and presumably had helped to prepare it may have answered a few questions. However, the different forms of modern-day slavery still seem to raise their heads in the EU. The issued was also addressed by the plea issued by the trade unions in 2019, calling for the abolition of slave labour on Europe’s roads.'$ We can conclude from all these that serious problems persist not only in the so-called developing world but in the economies of the member states of the European Union as well, which exploit the citizens of the member states looking for work — often at each other’s disadvantage.’ It has also become clear that in this symbiosis both the more and the less developed countries of the continent take part. The Covid-19 epidemic that broke out in the countries of the European Union in 2020 brought to the surface several problems that had lain “swept under the carpet” for a long time. Problems that the big companies involved in exploitation could not hide any more due to their serious consequences, which suddenly started to concern multitudes." It seems, that the conclusions that can be drawn from the experiences of the pandemic prove that the established forms of corporate behaviour can be expected to change only if the measures taken are strictly controlled and monitored by the government and the media." However, the expectations concerning these changes are far from being certainties at present. Examples like that of the Lufthansa airline serve as a warning for this. The German-Austrian company, which pocketed astronomical extra profit earlier amidst an emerging global economic crisis — without regard to the expected future demands for air travel, an industry facing complete makeover — demands to be paid billions of euros? with the assistance of the European 16 EFA Press Release, EU Governments Must Abolish Modern Slavery on Europe’s Roads, EFA Greens,10 January 2019, https://www.greens-efa.eu/en/article/press/eu-governments-mustabolish-modern-slavery-on-europes-roads/. See here: FRA, Súlyos munkaerőkizsákmányolás: az Európai Unión belül mozgó vagy ide érkező munkavállalók, FRA (2016), https://fra.europa.eu/sites/default/files/fra uploads/fra2016-severe-labour-exploitation-summary_hu.pdf. Most recently see in more detail: Szilagyi, Karoly, Tonnies: vesztfaliai példaképbdl közellenség, Euronews (26 June 2020), https://hu.euronews.com/2020/06/26/tonniesvesztfaliai-peldakepbol-kozellenseg. See, for instance, here: Das Erste, MOMA-Reporter: Aus fiir Werkvertrage bei Tonnies. Was macht der Fleischgigant jetzt anders?, Das Erste (22 January 2021), https://www.daserste. de/information/politik-weltgeschehen/morgenmagazin/reportagen/moma-reporter-ausfuer-werkvertraege-toennies-grossschlachterei-100.html. 2° Merkur.de, Nach Kurs-Absturz in der Corona-Krise: Lufthansa fliegt aus dem Dax Tausende Stellen stehen auf der Kippe, Merkur.de (06 August 2020), https://www.merkur. de/wirtschaft/lufthansa-coronavirus-rettungspaket-dax-kuendigungen-entscheidungangela-merkel-eu-kommission-krise-stellenabbau-zr-13716604.html. + 291 +
