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"Mr President, I share some, if not all, of Mrs McKenna's reservations on the Pirker report. However, I voted in favour of this report on a common immigration policy, but with an extremely heavy heart. I did so because although the report as amended is, as we would say in English, all over the place – some points do not correspond with others and there are contradictions left, right and centre – there are a few (and I am sure Mrs McKenna will look at them) but significant positive aspects to the report. For example, it recognises the right of third-country nationals legally resident in the European Union to free movement in Europe. Equally, it gives the right to vote in local elections.
However, there are negative aspects. I doubt whether all the people who voted for paragraph 35 could have read it, because it restricts the right of residence, accommodation and education. That is inherently racist and we should oppose it. However, to have rejected the report would have placed in jeopardy the positive points; hence my support, although with the reservations I have expressed clearly here."@en1
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