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"I am voting against the positions and the priorities proposed by the European Commission at the Tampere European Council concerning rights and freedoms.
The simple fact that it does not envisage regularisation of all people living and working on European soil without proper papers should explain why I have voted this way.
Designating Europe an “area of freedom, security and justice” shows a certain amount of cynicism. We do not ask about the background of capital in order to allow it freedom of movement and freedom of investment throughout the European Union. The free movement of people though is regulated, limited or banned according to their national and, above all, social background. Multinational companies are free to form groups, but the families of immigrant workers are not. Complete freedom is granted in cases where it damages employment and society, but it is withheld however when it concerns the most basic sense of humanity.
The European Charter of Fundamental Rights which the Tampere Summit is supposed to work on will be nothing more than a collection of empty words if it does not at least contain complete freedom of movement, and the individual’s freedom to settle where he wants for all those living and working in the European Union, whatever their original nationality, as well as complete equality of rights, including the right to vote."@en1
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