Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-09-24-Speech-3-005"
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"Mr President, it is very important that we in the European Union put our house in order in relation to civil rights.
Last night I discovered that people with disabilities were here in the European Parliament from all over Europe – Italy, Spain, France, Germany, etc. This is the European Year for the Disabled. I was very shocked to discover that a group of eight people were supposed to come from Belgrade, but the French authorities refused to give them visas. One of these people is a woman called Gordana Rajkov who has travelled all over the world and has never been denied access to any country. The French authorities have denied these people, who have been saving up for months to come to the European Parliament, the right to enter France.
I would like the President of Parliament to send a letter objecting very strongly to this fascist attitude towards people with disabilities and people from outside the European Union. It is completely unacceptable that, in the European Year for the Disabled, France, the country which has the seat of the European Parliament, denies people visas. I hope you will give us a guarantee that Parliament will send a very strong message to the French authorities stating that this should never happen again. Those people should have had the right to a visa."@en1
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