Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-03-07-Speech-1-145"
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"Mr President, the Commission welcomes the support expressed for the common position. I want to emphasise once again that this common position seeks to improve in several respects the rights of European citizens moving within the European Union. May I say that European citizens are really fortunate to be able to move within the Union in this way while being assured in a number of cases of the solidarity they need. That is a real step forward.
Under these circumstances of course – Mrs Oomen-Ruijten will take no offence – the Commission does not support her amendment rejecting the common position because that amendment would jeopardise all the progress made by the Community legislator up until now in the matter of special non-contributory benefits.
The proposal in question will result in dozens of benefits that have not been exportable up until now being exportable. There are however still five benefits at issue that have not been accepted as having to be exportable. The effect of Amendment 2 will be that all those benefits will remain in Annex IIa and will therefore continue to be non-exportable.
I honestly believe that, even if the fate of those five benefits is still uncertain, the agreement reached in the Council and the support, which I believed to be quite broad, in Parliament should enable us to make significant social progress for all European citizens where the remainder of the benefits is concerned. That is why the Commission is keen to see this text adopted."@en1
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