Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-05-21-Speech-1-062-000"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2012-05-21"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Visa-free travel to Canada for all EU citizens and the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"ro"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20120521.15.1-062-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2012-05-21-Speech-1-063-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Marian-Jean Marinescu2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; CONT (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 substitute; LIBE (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 vice-chair; EPP (2012-02-03--2014-06-30)3 substitute; ITRE (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Partidul Democrat-Liberal (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; TRAN (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation for relations with Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, relations between the European Union and Canada enjoy a special status. However, citizens of three Member States still require a visa to enter Canada. This situation undermines the common European visa policy, which is based on reciprocity and is intended to ensure equal treatment for all EU citizens. Member States participate on an equal footing in the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement with Canada. This agreement is crucial to the future of EU-Canada economic relations and will set out the future legal framework for developing these relations. As part of this agreement, Canada treats all Member States equally. However, when it comes to granting entry visas into Canada or equal treatment on the subject of waiving visas, Canada is not as consistent in its actions. Double standards are being applied and criteria are being used which are not sufficiently clear and transparent. The new legislation on the Canadian asylum system discourages asylum applications from EU countries. This is yet another argument confirming that maintaining the visa requirements for the three Member States is unjustified. The Commission will soon ask Parliament, during this year, to give its assent to the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement with Canada. Failure to apply equal treatment to all EU citizens when it comes to visa-free travel to Canada raises clear reservations with regard to the vote, and it is not out of the question that it will end up in the undesirable situation of the European Parliament withholding its assent. I should remind you that the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs recently voted in favour of an automatic procedure for applying the reciprocity clause to third countries which maintain visa requirements for EU citizens. The Commission is obliged to find a solution to the current situation where visas are imposed on Romanian, Bulgarian and Czech citizens. I call on the Commission to support, as a priority, during the negotiations on the comprehensive economic agreement, the waiving of visas for all EU citizens. The Commission has a duty to ensure that all EU citizens enjoy equal treatment."@en1
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