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"Mr President, European citizenship does indeed, as Mr Catania quite rightly says, depend on nationality.
As long as some people continue to see immigrants as second class citizens, as long as they believe that people who do not have European blood cannot acquire European rights, as long as, instead of integrating immigrants, they wish to keep them indefinitely in a grey zone, then immigration runs the risk of turning from the big hope of Europe into its big time bomb.
The debate on European citizenship, as Commissioner Frattini quite rightly says, is directly linked to the harmonious integration of immigrants and the major question of political citizenship.
The party from which I come in Greece, PASOK, has institutionalised the participation of immigrants in all its institutions. No European law is needed for that. It supports the participation of long-standing immigrants in local elections.
We must become more open-minded in Europe and I am very grateful to Mr Catania, because his report allows us to hold a material political debate and to touch on matters which many conservatives in Europe do not appear to wish to touch on."@en1
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