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"Mr President, in theory, all that sounds very nice, of course: European citizenship and the right of European citizens to move freely from one Member State to another, for work in particular. Who could be against that? However, reality, ladies and gentlemen, provides a very different picture, a picture which, strangely enough, is not reflected in the report before us.
In my own country, for example, there are major problems in all regional capitals without exception, in particular, with Romanian and Bulgarian immigrants, especially with the Roma amongst them. Even the very socialist mayor of the regional capital of Ghent said these words, and I quote: ‘Even if we want to be a welcoming and inclusive city, when it comes to the reception of Eastern Europeans, we have now had enough’.
I think it is unacceptable that these very real issues are being swept under the carpet in this report because of a kind of blind European idealism, by none other than a parliamentary committee which, ideally, should be paying attention to the real problems of all citizens, not just
category of citizens."@en1
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