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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2012-05-21"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Visa-free travel to Canada for all EU citizens and the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20120521.15.1-066-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2012-05-21-Speech-1-067-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:David Campbell Bannerman2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, I am alarmed at the tendency of the European Union to trespass into areas of national sovereignty where it does not belong; this is another example of that trend. It is the rightful business of the Canadian Government – and not us – to decide who it lets into its country, and why. Canada is not discriminating against us Europeans: it introduced similar restrictions for Mexicans, even though Mexico is in the North American Free Trade Agreement. Canada has successfully lifted the requirement for temporary visas where conditions are met. It has done so for Estonia, Latvia, Poland, Slovakia, Lithuania and Hungary. There seems to be serious confusion in the Commission’s stance in two regards. Firstly, there is confusion as to whether such visa matters belong in free trade agreements. They do not; just as ‘Mode 4’ worker access is not appropriate in the draft EU/India free trade agreement, so traveller visa matters do not belong in this Canadian free trade agreement. Border issues like this are a matter for Member States. The second point of confusion is about the European Union being a country. Yes, it aspires to be a country, but it is not one yet. So it is not the business of this place to force Canada to treat every EU nation equally, as if we were one country. That is a matter for individual nation states working through their own embassies. The Canadians have laid down fair and reasonable criteria, including low immigration violation rates, low asylum claims, high integrity of travel documents and good cooperation on removals. Those are reasonable terms. If this principle is breached, however, every EU Member State can expect the EU to start dictating all its border matters, and many EU Member States may well dislike losing control of their own borders to EU diktats. France and Spain have suspended Schengen on occasion, as has Spain this month, and the Dutch have tried to block Bulgaria and Romania. So in conclusion, Mr President, this is a line in the sand; a legal and political border that the EU must not cross."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Delegation for relations with Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo (2012-03-19--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation for relations with Switzerland and Norway and to the EU-Iceland Joint Parliamentary Committee and the European Economic Area (EEA) Joint Parliamentary Committee (2012-02-02--2014-06-30)3 member; PECH (2011-05-24--2014-06-30)3 substitute; AFCO (2012-01-31--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Conservative Party (2011-07-11--2014-06-30)3 member; SEDE (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 member; INTA (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"(The speaker agreed to take a blue-card question under Rule 149(8))"1 "David Campbell Bannerman,"1 "on behalf of the ECR Group."1
lpv:videoURI	<go to Events_and_structure europarl>2

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