Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-12-12-Speech-1-108"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2005-12-12"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Land law in Valencia2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20051212.16.1-108"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2005-12-12-Speech-1-1092
lpv:speaker	lp:Diana Wallis2
lpv:spoken text	". Mr President, I congratulate my colleague Mrs Fourtou on her balanced report. We in the ALDE Group will support our own amendments, of course, but not other amendments that seek to weaken this report further. This is about citizens’ rights. More importantly, perhaps, this is a right that goes to the centre of the European Union. Freedom of movement in the European Union has been a real success story, and when our citizens choose to exercise that right by living in – and often retiring to – another Member State, they deserve our protection and support. Many of them make the biggest financial investment they will ever make in their lives by purchasing real property. That is what happened to citizens in one region of one Member State. They have come to us in their thousands to explain that something has gone disastrously wrong. The value of their property is being wiped out by a development control law that does not seem to be working. We have produced, I believe, a balanced report that will continue to put pressure on the authorities in Valencia. There are three elements that we need to achieve. We need to make sure that you, Commissioner, continue to enforce EU law where you can; we need to make sure that those citizens who have come to us can benefit from some form of compensation or redress mechanism – and for that we must continue to exert pressure on the Spanish authorities. I must also ask you this, Commissioner: we ask our citizens to move and live elsewhere, and we do not want to see this kind of scenario again. So, without interfering in Member States’ land law – which is their own affair – can we please look for some sort of advice, guidance and information for our fellow citizens who buy property in another Member State? We do not want to see this again. We do not want to nanny our citizens, but we want to support them when they exercise the right to freedom of movement that is so precious to all of us."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; IMCO (2004-07-22--2007-01-14)3 member; PETI (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; JURI (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; ALDE (2004-07-20--2007-02-26)3 chair; Delegation for relations with Switzerland, Iceland and Norway and to the European Economic Area (EEA) Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-21--2007-09-04)3 unknown; Liberal Democrat Party (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; Conference of Delegation Chairs (2004-09-22--2007-09-04)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Diana Wallis,"1 "on behalf of the ALDE Group"1

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