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"Mr President, I should like to start by congratulating Ms Vălean on her very good report. The report is based on the principle that everyone who is a citizen of a Member State of the European Union is also a European citizen. That is correct. Therefore, European Union citizenship supplements national citizenship without replacing it. That is why citizens’ rights are the main criterion in the report and the right to apply to the Ombudsman, the right to submit legislative proposals under a European Citizens’ Initiative, and the right to vote and to stand as candidates in local and European elections, are citizens’ inalienable rights.
As a member of the Committee on Petitions, I can tell you that we receive a plethora of petitions from European citizens on the obstacles that they encounter in the exercise of their rights. It is therefore important for European citizens’ rights to be protected and to be described clearly in the Union’s legal provisions and to be applied, so that citizens can trust in the Union. The Committee on Petitions is trying to correct these problems by placing citizens at the centre of their activities. Man stands at the centre of the entire philosophy of the European Union: I trust that we shall manage to apply that principle."@en1
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