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"If the measures for residents and visitors from outside had not been prepared before 11 September 2001, they would probably have been subject to a long delay due to the new fear of terrorism and lack of security. It is high time we tore down the last vestiges of statutory discrimination against a large proportion of our population. This discrimination affects people who, mainly in the 1960s, were attracted as ‘guest workers’ from Turkey or Morocco to come and fill the most unpleasant and worst paid jobs. Initially, their permanent residence was not taken into consideration by the six Member States of the then European Communities. After 40 years, many of these people from the first generation of migrants still do not have the nationality of their country of residence. For these people, there was no European unity for years. Unlike people with the nationality of a Member State, they were required to continue to comply with visa obligations in each separate Member State which they crossed in order to spend a holiday in their country of origin. The fact that they are now afforded more equal rights is unfortunately not so much the effect of indignation about the discrimination against them as it is a way of building one large European super state and of demonstrating that the old national borders have largely become defunct."@en1
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