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"Mr President, in my first debate in the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) five years ago, a noblewoman of Liberal persuasion convinced herself that I did not know the difference between people travelling with or without a visa, on the one hand, and immigrants on the other. I think that I remarked that I did know the difference but sometimes the travellers did not.
People who travel from poor countries to relatively rich ones are not always scrupulously honest about their purposes for, or the intended length of, their visit. In a recent debate in LIBE, a representative of the Commission warned against confusing visa facilitation and visa liberalisation and said that easing the procedure for obtaining the visa, as distinct from waiving it, would not allow the visa holder to overstay. The visa overstayer, he implied, would be waiting in the place he was supposed to have been for the authorities to collect him and return him to his own country.
I have heard the Commission accused of many things but I did not think that naivety was among them."@en1
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