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We are in favour of full equal rights, including political rights, for everyone living and working in the European Union, whether citizens of a Member State or third-country nationals.
The proposal for a Council directive sets itself a different objective altogether; amongst others, that of increasing the mobility and flexibility of the immigrant workforce within the European Union. Nonetheless, the proposal makes several improvements – which we have voted for – to the status of persons who originate from third countries and who are residing in the European Union. That said, the proposal aims to limit even these few improvements to long-term residents only, which we cannot adopt. It is even more difficult for us to adopt most of Parliament’s amendments, which further restrict the original text and have no other aim than to pander to nationalist, sovereign or xenophobic prejudices.
We shall not vote against this text, because, in many ways, it improves the situation of certain third-country nationals who live and work in the European Union. But we refuse to give our backing to the numerous restrictions that it contains. We therefore abstained on the whole text, rejecting the particular amendments – that is, most of them – that would make the original text worse."@en1
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