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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2012-02-16"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Family reunification of third-country nationals living in the EU (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"mt"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20120216.5.4-019-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2012-02-16-Speech-4-020-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Simon Busuttil2
lpv:spokenAs	member_of_the_bureau; EPP (2009-07-14--2013-04-05)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with Switzerland and Norway and to the EU-Iceland Joint Parliamentary Committee and the European Economic Area (EEA) Joint Parliamentary Committee (2009-09-16--2013-04-05)3 unknown; Partit Nazzjonalista (2009-07-14--2013-04-05)3 member; Delegation for relations with Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo (2009-09-16--2013-04-05)3 member; PETI (2012-01-19--2013-04-05)3 substitute; IMCO (2012-01-19--2013-04-05)3 substitute; Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean (2009-09-16--2013-04-05)3 member; LIBE (2012-01-19--2013-04-05)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, over the years, the Family Reunification Directive has done a great deal of good, since it has allowed several families situated in dangerous areas to be reunited under the protection offered by European law. At the same time, it has also permitted several immigrants to integrate within Europe by making it possible for them to live their family life. This is precisely why we should keep working on this directive, whilst ensuring that its purposes are still achievable in future. The Commission’s Green Paper on this directive, which we are discussing today, analyses this topic from different points of view. Yet I would like to take the opportunity to go further and also look at the issue from another point of view and mention those other countries which are, to this very day, facing disproportionate burdens owing to heavy immigration influx. Right now, for example, it is Greece that comes to mind. This country cannot even cope with the influx and the needs of the people arriving there, let alone were these people to be joined by their family members. I also hail from a country, Malta, which has received a great influx of immigrants, and this already creates a disproportionate burden. Were the families of some of these persons also to be added, then the burden would be far greater. This does not mean that this directive, this law, is bad. Far from it. I have already stated that it is very good and very important. Yet it is important that in assessing this law, we view all perspectives, including the ability of Member States to implement it. If a directive is not viable, then it will be of no interest to anybody."@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"(The speaker agreed to take a blue-card question under Rule 149(8))"1
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