Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-04-08-Speech-2-158"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-04-08"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Right to family reunification2
dcterms:Language	"da"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030408.4.2-158"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-04-08-Speech-2-1592
lpv:speaker	lp:Ole B. Sørensen2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation for relations with Japan (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Lithuania Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3 member; ELDR (2001-11-27--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Venstre (2001-11-27--2004-07-19)3 member; CONT (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, allow me to start by regretting that the Council established its policy as early as the end of February without waiting for the opinion of the European Parliament. Although it has taken a long time to get this report through Parliament, that does not give the Council an excuse to disregard Parliament’s role in the legislative process. Having said that, I believe that the directive concerns a very central area of the debate on immigration and integration. It is a fact that family reunifications among third country citizens contribute between 40 and 50% of the total number of immigrants into the EU. The directive will help to produce greater clarity concerning the rules, improved integration and a fairer distribution of the burden within the Community. At the same time, the directive gives the Member States sufficient opportunities to prevent inadvertent economic immigration. It must be emphasised that family reunification helps to secure values that are entirely fundamental to every individual: the family unit and a normal family life. On behalf of the Group of the European Liberal, Democrat and Reform Party, I have supported the proposed amendment that creates a wider definition of family and also brings third country citizens with subsidiary protection within the rules on family reunification. At the same time, however, I do not consider it wrong for us to link certain requirements to the rules on family reunification. I still believe that the Member States must have the opportunity to set requirements, for example in the form of a normal standard of accommodation, an income that ensures that the family can be provided for, and respect for public order and security, as well as the opportunity to establish a waiting period. It is my wish that this report will be adopted with as much support as possible in this House, and that the Council will then in future listen to the advice we give it."@en1

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