Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-02-27-Speech-3-069"
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"Mr President, with the Barcelona European Council in mind, the Commission has just presented an action plan for the mobility of people in Europe, which, in our view, contains several debatable points.
Some proposals are, admittedly, based on obvious common sense such as lifelong learning, better coordination of social security systems or the transferability of pension rights. The Commission’s initiative, however, is written from a strange point of view. First of all it states that geographical mobility is five times higher in the United States than in Europe, as if the intention was to render the nations of Europe identical to the United States. This would be a serious misinterpretation. Our real objective, which is what most of our fellow citizens want, is the respect for nations and also for the lifestyle, culture and language to which they are rightfully attached. Let us not switch round the priorities on the sly. To do this would be to take a truly totalitarian approach. The Commission has also slipped calls for a common immigration policy into this action plan which really do not belong there. This is another matter altogether. We should not use this method to force the States to adopt guidelines, of whose existence they are not fully aware."@en1
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