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"I support the awarding of a visa waiver for travel by nationals of Taiwan, and therefore the country’s transfer to the positive list. This decision will have a favourable economic impact on relations between the EU and Taiwan, which is already our 19th most important trade partner. The EU is also the largest foreign investor in Taiwan. It should encourage tourism: the EU is already one of the most important destination regions for Taiwanese nationals. It does not, by contrast, increase the risk of illegal immigration, since the average rate in 2006-2008 was 45 people, which is very low, or threaten public security. It increases regional consistency, since the vast majority of the region’s countries and entities with a similar level of economic development already benefit from this visa waiver scheme: Hong Kong, Macao, Japan, South Korea and Singapore. I welcome Taiwan’s adoption of the measures necessary to ensure a high level of passport and identity card security, with the introduction of biometric passports, as well as the measures announced to prevent the various Member States of the EU from being treated differently."@en1
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