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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, on behalf of the entire committee, I would like to thank Ms Vălean for her excellent work, and it is undoubtedly also the case that, following this debate, it will be an important instrument for evaluating citizenship, as it provides the direct views of citizens themselves.
I would like to thank Commissioner Rehn because, by reminding us of the commitments Member States made in the Maastricht Treaty, he emphasised that any efforts towards a greater harmonisation of systems must be made according to the principle of subsidiarity. With this, I do not think I will be able to convince Mr Nattrass or Mr Migalski, but at least I will be able to give them some more points to consider.
I would also like to thank the committees that made a contribution to the important work of the committee that I chair, the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection, which, with its proposal for a Citizens’ Rights Charter, has undoubtedly given a further boost to the European Commission project, the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE), which has focused on the subject of immigrants that often involves the Committee on Petitions, and also Ms Gurmai.
I share the idea that this is not the place for defining the competence of the institutional committee that will deal with organising the popular initiative, but, at the same time, I believe that this is the right place for discussing better services for citizens. In the report, we point to the Committee on Petitions as being the best instrument for serving citizens’ rights.
The report identifies 57 critical and positive points and, in my view, these do not cover all the complaints that citizens bring to our committee. However, these 57 points undoubtedly provide an important snapshot for the work that the European Commission will be carrying out in its promotion of European citizenship."@en1
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