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"Mr President, since 1 July the Netherlands has been applying measures which seriously discriminate against Romanian and Bulgarian citizens, who will receive work permits only in exceptional cases, along with citizens from outside the EU.
In terms of obligations, Romania has fulfilled its allotted share, including the contribution to the common budget. Irrespective of the problems encountered by new Member States in adapting to the European Union’s rules, I do not believe that they entitle a Member State to discriminate against other citizens who enjoy the same rights as every other citizen in EU countries.
Unfortunately, this evidence of national chauvinism has been on the rise recently, even though the current crisis must demonstrate that solidarity, which provides the foundation for European integration, is not just some meaningless word. A reference was made earlier to Denmark’s gesture of introducing customs checkpoints at EU internal borders. I do not believe that we can let European integration be hijacked by populist and extremist parties who fuel the general public’s fears and attack the European Union’s founding values in order to achieve hypothetical electoral victories.
I call on the Commission to ask the governments in the countries which apply different standards questions on this subject and to adopt the necessary measures so that all citizens are treated equally across the entire European Union."@en1
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