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"Criminality has no nationality. I regret and condemn any criminal act, wherever it happens, and justice should do its duty. Yet, one cannot stigmatize an entire people or ethnic group for a crime committed by one of its members. Fighting criminality should not infringe upon the free movement of persons, a fundamental principle of the European construction. European citizens have the right to live and travel freely, without fear of being persecuted or subject to acts of violence in the Member States. I ask the European Commission to examine the decree recently approved in Italy, which allows expulsions without granting any legal guarantees to the persons expelled, especially if they are citizens of the European Union. This decree has allowed abuses that certain Romanian citizens have already suffered. I ask the Italian State to take actions in order to stop the abuses. I believe this situation should be urgently solved in order not to allow European Union citizens to be discriminated against, regardless of whether they are Romanian, Italian, German, Spanish or French. I don’t want this decree to become a dangerous precedent that would question the very respect of the Union’s fundamental principles. This might affect the internal credibility of the European Union, as well as its credibility as a world player."@en1

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