Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2009-10-19-Speech-1-094"

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dcterms:Date	"2009-10-19"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Evaluation mechanism to monitor the application of the Schengen acquis - Establishment of an evaluation mechanism to verify the application of the Schengen acquis (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"pl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20091019.17.1-094"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2009-10-19-Speech-1-0952
lpv:speaker	lp:Marek Siwiec2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees, and for relations with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; AFET (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 substitute; IMCO (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 member; S&D (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Sojusz Lewicy Demokratycznej (2009-07-14--2012-12-31)3 substitute; Special Committee on the Financial, Economic and Social Crisis (2009-10-08--2011-07-31)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, the word ‘Schengen’ has been heard over and over again in this Chamber. Most of us agree that Schengen has been a great success, and that for the people of the new countries, the new Member States of the European Union, this means the significant success of integration. However, at the same time, Schengen is an enormous obligation, and it is the new countries which have taken it on – the Baltic states, Poland, Slovakia, Romania and Bulgaria. Responsibility for the eastern land border of the European Union rests on the new Member States, and they are meeting this obligation extremely well. However, I would like to talk about something which has not been mentioned in this Chamber. What is for us a matter of admiration and pride – I mean Schengen and freedom of movement – is a nightmare and a source of huge problems for all those who are covered by the visa policy and the need to obtain what are called ‘Schengen visas’. I am talking about the residents of Ukraine, Moldova and other countries to the east, who want to come to the European Union. Schengen visas have been introduced, but they cost a great deal. For these visas, people in those countries have to pay roughly as much as they earn per month. They are subjected to a humiliating procedure for obtaining these visas, and they have to stand in gigantic queues. This, too, is Schengen. For them, Schengen means humiliation, a wall and a problem. In order to establish a system to evaluate the function of Schengen policy, I would like at least to mention matters related to visa policy. I would like to evaluate this. Perhaps there was some kind of justification for this, but we do not know how long this policy will be in force, and I would like to evaluate how we introduced such instruments, which separate us from many people who quite naturally want to come to our area, to the Schengen area. Although this is not the subject of the report, I wanted to say these words here during today’s debate."@en1
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