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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the spirit of the Schengen Treaty is about safeguarding the security of European citizens. To this end, it is undoubtedly better to have a few queues at borders and in airports rather than allowing free entry not only to decent people but also to the most hardened criminals, whom we do not want in our countries.
We wish to see border checks, for example on Romanian Roma, with compulsory detection of biometric data including digital fingerprints. We must know who we are allowing into our country, as well as the exact date of entry, so as to be able for example to apply scrupulously the European Directive enabling us – as pointed out just a moment ago – to expel after three months anyone who lacks the funds to support themselves.
Romano Prodi’s Commission made commitments to the new Member States without giving any consideration at all to emergencies, of which there have been several since then. They are now giving rise to appalling security problems, and the European Union must think not only about European citizens’ rights, but also about their security. Security is an inalienable right, a natural right.
Action is now required, and Commissioner Frattini is quite rightly sending out well-balanced, positive signals in this regard, but we should not forget that Schengen must also concern itself with checks at the European Union's external borders, and must do so ever more efficiently. We have nothing against any ethnic group or population group, still less against our brothers in Eastern Europe; however, we do not want criminals moving around freely in our land.
Padania is a land of honest, hard-working people. Its doors are open only to those who come to work, who behave well and – as befits the European Union's area of justice and freedom – who abide by the rules, namely the rules of honesty and law and order."@en1
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