Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-04-20-Speech-2-139"
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"en.20040420.7.2-139"2
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The transformation of the new borders of the European Union formed by enlargement into a veritable iron curtain will have tragic consequences for the populations living on either side of these borders. These borders sometimes divide peoples, and even families, and turning them into the Schengen borders is unacceptable in human terms.
If Europe demonstrated some genuine brotherly love, it would, on the contrary, make travelling easier. This is not the reasoning, however, behind the report’s proposal to relax the rules somewhat as regards local border traffic. Instead it claims that ‘the EU and its neighbours can profit from putting in place mechanisms that allow workers to move from one territory to another where skills are needed most’. In other words, closing the borders too tightly would prevent businesses from benefiting from cheap casual labour or from keeping local trade on its feet. Hence the proposed regulation, which is nit-picking and bureaucratic.
To cap it all, the Stockton report, for its part, gives, albeit only temporarily, approximately the same treatment to residents of the border areas between the countries currently in the Union and the new accession countries. This goes to show that enlargement, even if it removes all the barriers to the movement of capital, is not removing the barriers to the movement of people.
We have abstained so as to avoid blocking the slight relaxation for border residents with respect to Schengen, without endorsing inhumane legislation."@en1
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