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"Mr President, Commissioner, in company with Mr Hernández Mollar – whom I would like to thank for his enthusiastic support for Amendment No 15, tabled by myself – I feel that this document must be rejected if the European People's Party's amendments are not incorporated.
I support Amendment No 14, tabled by Mr Tannock, which upholds the free movement of the heirs to the Italian and Greek thrones and supports the monarchy.
Personally, in tabling Amendment No 15, I support the pensioners, for although the measure facilitates the movement of non-EU citizens, it does not remove the difficulties facing its own citizens, particularly its disabled citizens, who wish to travel within Europe.
At Bergamo Orio al Serio airport, as I was leaving to come to Strasbourg, I met a pensioner – a very old lady who is 80 years old – who told me that she wanted to go to Paris to visit her daughter but that she could not do so because she would lose her Italian State pension which is her only means of support. Another person, who is totally handicapped, said that they wanted to go to London but that they could not do so because they would have lost their pension. Yet another person, who is disabled – in a wheelchair, no less – told me that he would have liked to go and visit his brother but that in doing so he would have lost his incapacity allowance.
Therefore, our goal must be to bring about the free movement of pensioners and disabled citizens in Europe."@en1
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