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"Madam President, European citizenship was one of the great achievements of the Union Treaty adopted in Nice in 1992.
In accordance with the judgments of the Court of Justice, the rights of European citizenship, including the right to free movement and residence within the Union, were fundamental rights of European citizens, whose recognition did not require any legislative implementation.
In accordance with this legal basis, the Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market considered that there was no reason for the establishment of restrictions of an administrative nature, either for entry into a country or for free movement and residence.
Much progress has been made in the field of legislative organisation by means of the Schengen Agreements, but it is the case that certain countries are still resisting this progress and are not participating in it.
Therefore, the Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market hoped that this proposal for a directive would represent an effective step forward by removing all the restrictions in terms of administration and content to a citizen’s ability to establish themselves in another Community country.
This was the purpose of the amendments adopted by the Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market.
The amendments of the Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market were not accepted by the Committee on Citizens’ Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs, and the rapporteur would naturally like them to be maintained, but has not insisted, in order not to jeopardise the agreements reached in this field.
I would like to draw attention to an amendment, however, which could to a certain extent respond to the concerns of the Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market. I am referring to Amendment No 23 – which introduces a new Article 4(b) – which says that ‘This Directive shall not lead to the withdrawal of existing rights established by the legislation of the European Union or Court of Justice decision’.
I believe this amendment is essential if we do not want to move backwards in terms of the rights of European citizens within the Union."@en1
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