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"Mr President, firstly, either there are uniform EU visa rules and a binding reciprocity mechanism for all Member States, in which case the Commission – as Guardian of the Treaties – must fight hard for these to be implemented, or there are not, in which case the Commission has already been tolerating a two-tier system for EU citizens for many years, and my group considers that absolutely unacceptable. We demand that the Commission resolves this problem without delay and prior to concluding the agreement with Canada. Otherwise, the reciprocity mechanism must apply. That is my first point.
At the same time, however, we have to take ourselves seriously, which leads me to ask whether the new visa regulation will at least strengthen the reciprocity mechanism? Is that the case? Can we in fact prevent such practices as have occurred in relation to Canada from occurring again in future? The only thing I can say to that is: by no means. What has emerged, however, is that visa policy continues to be used as a means of exerting pressure against migration.
As my third point, can we please talk for once about the population group that is often meant when we talk about the Czech Republic, Bulgaria and Romania. It is the Roma. Many Roma have gone to Canada, and the Czech Republic argues that Canada is itself to blame for this because Canada has for years created incentives for high levels of immigration through its generous and tolerant asylum policy. That is Canada’s argument, and they are doing nothing to counter this. On the contrary, they go so far as to support it by saying: well, how is it that EU citizens are even able to go to third countries and claim asylum? Indeed, why is that? It is because the Roma have miserable living conditions in the EU – a situation of which we have been aware for many years, in which they are so discriminated against and excluded that it is no wonder that people are going to countries such as Canada. To me, this issue is also a kind of
; and to that extent, if we really want to do something about it, if we want to prevent emigration, then we have to improve conditions at home. That is what we should be looking at."@en1
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