Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-02-11-Speech-2-029"
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"This report and proposal for a directive constitute an important step towards giving practical shape to a basic feature of European citizenship, that of people’s effective freedom of movement within the European Union.
I should like nonetheless to put forward a criticism concerned with an aspect that, unfortunately, has not been taken into account.
In fact, inequality still exists between those resident in a Member State of which they are nationals and those from another Member State whose residence in the former is on a long-term basis but who apparently enjoy a permanent right of residence, confirmed by the issue of a residence permit. These people will continue to be at a disadvantage in relation to nationals as soon as they want to cross internal borders of the European Union, for they will then have to be furnished with passports or identity cards issued by the states from which they derive their nationality, all of which implies additional administration and costs.
It is a pity that the opportunity has not been seized to put an end to this injustice, either by providing for a system of European identity cards or by arranging for the permanent residence permit to be considered equivalent to an identity card when it comes to crossing the European Union’s internal borders."@en1
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