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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I am rather bewildered to hear some fellow Members saying that this directive would allegedly encourage unchecked mass immigration. The reality is the exact opposite. We are talking here about those with a proper work and residence permit, and if they are doing the same work as an EU citizen, then such people should also receive the same usual types of social benefits within the European Union as any other person would get. This safeguards those who work properly and with the right papers; it is not opening any floodgates.
I also find it most amusing that some Members are complaining that too many groups are excluded, while others are complaining that mass immigration will take place. I congratulate the rapporteur. She seems to have found the golden middle way between giving the Member States the necessary individual powers of differentiation in certain decision areas and, on the other hand, providing a certain guarantee of social security for those working according to the rules. It should be a matter of course that family benefits depend on length of stay, but that someone who has earned a pension is able to take it with them if they have worked according to the rules. I therefore find it rather strange that people’s concerns that many workers will be crowded out of the labour market are being fuelled here. This directive has nothing to do with that."@en1
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