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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, what we are discussing here is a directive intended to facilitate family reunification. It is not about immigration policy. As Claude Moraes just said, you obviously cannot separate the two issues altogether, but let us keep a close eye on what the directive concerns. It concerns immigrants who want to build a stable family life. That will do a great deal to promote integration. People who are forced to remain alone while their loved ones and their families are living somewhere else are not living in a stable situation. It is, therefore, in our interests to ensure that people are able to live in stable family circumstances.
Moreover, let us remember that there are still a great number of people who are not entitled to claim this right, for example, cohabiting partners with children and same-sex couples. On this matter, I therefore welcome hearing the extraordinarily progressive recommendation given by the competent committee of the Council of Europe to the European Commission.
Of course, abuse should be discouraged and forced marriages is something that I seriously abhor. However, I have to get one thing off my chest, ladies and gentlemen, and this is a purely personal comment: saying that we have to use this instrument now to fight that sort of thing seems to me to smack somewhat of convenience feminism. If we want to do something to strengthen the position of women, then, frankly, I could give you a few better suggestions.
We need to focus, especially, on improving the application of the directive, on ensuring, more than anything else, that the ambiguities can be ironed out, on greater harmonisation and on ensuring that application of the directive is more harmonised, instead of on increasing the differences in implementation between Member States. On that score, I am therefore pleased to note from the Commissioner’s words that there is no support for the restrictions demanded by the Dutch Government."@en1
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