Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-06-18-Speech-3-148"
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"I voted in favour of some amendments – four, to be precise – that sought to improve this directive. However, I also voted in favour of the final directive, even though these amendments were not approved.
I believe that this directive substantially improves the rights of irregularly-staying immigrants in many European Union countries. That is something that cannot be denied: we only have to compare the laws that currently exist throughout the Union.
Obviously it is not the directive that some of us would have drawn up if we had had the chance to do so, if each of us had been left to prepare it individually. However, there has to be balance in the codecision procedure between the legitimacy of the European Parliament and the legitimacy of the all of the national parliaments and governments.
It is the national parliaments that now bear a great responsibility in terms of applying this directive, just as the European Commission and the Court of Justice have to monitor its application. From now on, restrictions on rights in the Member States are subject to European law; they are no longer national decisions."@en1
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