Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2010-03-09-Speech-2-066"

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dcterms:Date	"2010-03-09"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20100309.5.2-066"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2010-03-09-Speech-2-0672
lpv:speaker	lp:Cecilia Wikström2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; LIBE (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees, and for relations with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia (2009-09-16--2012-12-09)3 member; JURI (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 substitute; EMPL (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 substitute; Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Folkpartiet liberalerna (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; ALDE (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, EU cooperation is based on values, and the most fundamental of these values is freedom. The subject of our discussion today is people’s ability to move about freely. In my EU, there are no restrictions on this. It is here that I believe the EU’s greatness lies. All of us who live here enjoy freedom of movement, but it should also apply to all those who come to reside here for a lengthy period. Under the Schengen Convention, the holder of a long-stay visa is not currently entitled to freedom of movement; instead, as Mr Coelho has pointed out, he or she may only stay in the Member State that issued the visa. As a result, for example, a visiting professor from India who lives and works in my home city of Uppsala in Sweden cannot travel to Paris to attend a conference without applying for a visa to visit France, and a student from China cannot travel to Germany to visit a friend for the weekend without first applying for a visa to go there. This type of barrier to freedom of movement must not exist within the EU. We are now changing this. The purpose of the present proposal is to secure freedom of movement throughout the Schengen area for third-country nationals who are resident in a Member State for a lengthy period. I would like to thank Mr Coelho, who has done an extremely fine job as rapporteur, and who has taken account of the views that I put forward in my opinion on behalf of the Committee on Legal Affairs as well as the views of other shadow rapporteurs. We have the result before us now: it is a positive proposal that forms another link in ensuring freedom of movement within the EU, including for third-country nationals. It develops things further, and that is the EU that I am proud to live in and work for."@en1
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