Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-02-11-Speech-2-113"
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The European Union has succeeded in one aspect. In the consciousness of the inhabitants of the 15 Member States, every citizen of a Member State is free to visit the territory of another Member State and to stay there for a long period of time or even undertake paid work there. Virtually nobody believes that there are still rules which seriously restrict that right. It is therefore quite ridiculous that we are today still discussing the circumstances under which such stays can be permitted and for how long, and what the rights of same-sex partners or unmarried cohabitees of a different nationality are. What we seem to be doing today is restricting freedoms that already exist instead of broadening them, mainly in order to exclude people from social security for the first four years. We are constantly arguing for greater mobility of labour, which would entail Europeans, like Americans, being willing to move thousands of kilometres for paid work. People do not want this kind of pressure at all; what they want is the freedom they thought they already had to make the decision themselves to live and work abroad. I am voting for this regulation because it reduces existing restrictions and excludes the expulsion of people on account of illness or an accident."@en1
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