Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-07-05-Speech-3-401"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2006-07-05"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Visa policy with regard to western Balkan countries (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"de"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20060705.20.3-401"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2006-07-05-Speech-3-4022
lpv:speaker	lp:Doris Pack2
lpv:spokenAs	member; CULT (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (2004-08-31--2009-07-13)3 chair; Delegation for relations with the countries of south-east Europe (2004-09-21--2007-03-13)3 substitute; AFET (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; Conference of Delegation Chairs (2004-09-22--2009-07-13)3 member; FEMM (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 unknown; Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Croatia Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the countries of South-Eastern Europe, as they move towards the European Union, must reform themselves; they must adopt standards and work together on a regional basis, which means, in practical terms, that they must be reconciled with one another. They know that, and they are doing it, some of them faster than others, yet, despite all their efforts, they are denied unhindered access to the European Community, something that the Yugoslavs, at any rate, always enjoyed. The ministers of internal affairs, and the national politicians too, ought, for a moment, to visualise themselves or their families having only some EUR 200 to live on and having to fork out practically all of that to get a visa, a Schengen visa, and a transit visa, and, in order to hand over the money, having to queue, sometimes for days or even weeks. Even our counterparts in the national parliaments of South-Eastern Europe have to apply for a visa every time they want to attend meetings of the Council of Europe. Over 70% of the young people in Serbia, Bosnia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Kosovo or Albania have never ventured outside their own region or their own country. We, in the European Union, are currently opening up our educational programmes; how are they supposed to work if the visa rules are so onerous? How are businesses supposed to move in if local workers cannot travel to the company headquarters – in France or England, say – except subject to very difficult conditions? In Bosnia and Herzegovina, for example, the crime rate is less than the average across the European Union, so why, despite that, do we not make it easier for the people who live there to come to us? Where the conditions for the issuing of visas are concerned, Russia gets better treatment than these countries do, and one wonders why. These countries are in the midst of the EU, and we ourselves have a real interest in their well-being and in their growth and development. This is a matter of our own self-interest. It was with the help of our European Union that Bosnia and Herzegovina managed to secure its borders, and the neighbouring countries are doing the same, so let us take off our blinkers and help to do away with these unnecessary and humiliating barriers."@en1

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