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"For any normal person, freedom of movement means that any individual who is a citizen of an EU country or who has come from outside the European Union and now lives within it may move and reside within the EU as he sees fit. That would be too simple, however, for the generations of self-styled ‘fathers of Europe’.
The interminable haggling between Member States, united solely by the desire to bring about the free circulation of capital, has resulted in such a jumble of different regulations where visas are concerned that it has become a problem even for the conduct of business. Spain’s indignation has been aroused, not from the human rights point of view but because the situation ‘causes valuable time to be lost and inflicts serious losses on seamen, shipping companies and airlines, since it frequently causes flights or flight connections to be missed’. Hence, a number of measures to make it easier to obtain certain categories of visa.
We have not voted against this report, for the new regulations will perhaps prevent a few of the inconveniences, and even humiliations, that seamen have to bear at present. This pathetic haggling and these short-sighted measures are, however, a good illustration of the gulf between the ostensible desire to build a unified Europe of the nations and the reality of a Europe that remains divided, surrounded by barbed wire and incapable of ensuring genuine freedom of movement for those within it."@en1
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