MIGRANT Workers Secretary Susan Ople said on Saturday that the decision of the European Union to continually recognize certificates issued by the Philippines to seamen averted a crisis that could lead to the loss of jobs of 50,000 Filipino seafarers.

"With this decision, a crisis of monumental proportions has just been averted," Ople said.

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