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"Mr President, quite apart from all humanitarian issues and the question of the extent to which the reunification of families is a fundamental right, it must be clear to all of us that such family reunification constitutes a direct entry into the social systems, rather than into the labour market. If we consider that the number of immigrants in most EU Member States has increased several fold in recent decades, while the number of people in regular employment has remained more or less the same, then we can clearly see what this means. The fact is that in many countries, up to 40% of immigrants live mostly on social security payments, which is also the consequence of the application of this family reunification provision.
In this context, organised forced marriages and marriages of convenience are nothing new and are rarely uncovered. In order to restrict mass migration, it is certainly high time to tighten up our definition of the term ‘family’, instead of dealing with it with excessive generosity. We need to take a consistent, but well-founded humanitarian position on this issue."@en1
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