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Immigration is a serious problem, which requires a realistic and responsible response from the Community Institutions. Abstaining from taking appropriate and balanced measures in this field is precisely the cause of the damaging effects of which all European citizens are aware. The least that these serious and now universally acknowledged problems require is that we do not make them worse. In the words of Commissioner António Vitorino, ‘...it should be clearly stated that the reception capacity of Europe’s cities has limits’.
The issue of immigration cannot, it is true, be addressed by sacrificing the right to family reunification. This is quite clear to me, because I recognise the importance of this concept.
We can and must, however, only see the right to family reunification in serious terms, without the reason sustaining its existence being compromised. This is not the approach adopted by the report and the resolution on this Directive, which unreasonably extend this right to personal situations that do not involve family relationships. This leftist irresponsibility serves only to increase suspicions and resistance to a natural fundamental right. It is for all of these reasons that I felt obliged to vote against the report."@en1
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