Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-02-16-Speech-4-022-000"

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dcterms:Date	"2012-02-16"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Claude Moraes2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, as the debate so far has shown, family reunification, of which I am a product – I joined my family in the European Union as an immigrant – is something which is extremely important and fundamental, and I think EU law and regulations in this area understand that this is a fundamental right. It is a fundamental right to be joined by your family, but, of course, you cannot divorce it from the context of immigration to the European Union. What we are doing today is perhaps not debating current EU migration policy but ensuring that we do not have the inconsistencies and unfairness that accompany the right for non-EU citizens who are already legally residing in a Member State to be joined by their families. This is a basic human right, and we should always remember this. Of course, the reality of the directive is that it is very imperfect. The discretion used by Member States has been so wide as to create some unfair practices. This Green Paper, therefore, is a chance to strengthen the guarantee of family reunification to non-EU citizens, but we must have what Mrs Guillaume talked about in terms of a proactive approach by the Commission to ensure that those inconsistencies, where they are deeply unfair, are ironed out. Some Member States have called for more restrictive conditions to be added to this directive in order to tackle fraud and abuse. We really need to assess all of this and to ensure that what we are delivering here are basic human rights, but obviously in a realistic context of immigration to the European Union."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Delegation for relations with India (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Labour Party (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; S&D (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; LIBE (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 vice-chair; Delegation for relations with the Arab Peninsula (2009-09-29--2014-06-30)3 substitute; IMCO (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Claude Moraes (S&D )."1
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