Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-02-11-Speech-2-014"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-02-11"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Freedom of movement and residence for EU citizens2
dcterms:Language	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030211.1.2-014"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-02-11-Speech-2-0152
lpv:speaker	lp:Giuseppe Di Lello Finuoli2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Committee on Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with the countries of South America and MERCOSUR (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 member; PETI (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; EUL/NGL (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Partito della rifondazione comunista (1999-07-20--2004-04-28)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, the proposal for a directive on the right of European citizens and their families to free movement and residence within the territory of the Member States marks a key point in the creation of a freer, more open Europe, and it endeavours, moreover, to simplify and streamline a veritable spider’s web of provisions on employees and the self-employed, pensioners, students and citizens who simply wish to live in a country other than their own. Then the amendments adopted in the Committee on Citizens’ Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs have improved the original text considerably, providing greater legal certainty for workers and protecting them from the dangers of illegal immigration. Of course, European citizens should be protected from these dangers too. Certainly, a great deal remains to be done, as Mrs Karamanou and Mr Medina Ortega have made clear. In addressing the expectations of family members who wish to live outside their own country, we have been working, not least, towards a genuine increase in civil liberties, eliminating discrimination on the basis of gender identity, sexual orientation or form of cohabitation. We are convinced that, just as rights such as the right to divorce or to have an abortion are ingrained in the psyche of the majority of Europeans, so there is also a clear need to make effective the right of those who wish to live in a country other than their own, who wish to live alone or with a same-sex partner or to build a family without being forced to marry. I do not know whether the Council will decide or be able to preserve the political and cultural balance of Parliament’s decisions, whether it will endorse the report in the form adopted by the Committee on Citizens’ Freedoms and Rights, but we are sure that, should it fail to do so, it would be acting against the wishes of the majority of the Union’s citizens, as Mrs Terrón i Cusí has said, with the danger of widening the gap between institutions and people."@en1

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