Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-05-21-Speech-1-087-000"

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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	"de"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20120521.15.1-087-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2012-05-21-Speech-1-088-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Franz Obermayr2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries (2012-02-13--2014-06-30)3 substitute; EMPL (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 member; IMCO (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean (2012-03-29--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees, and for relations with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; NA (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, in principle, a Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement with Canada is to be thoroughly welcomed. I will come back to the restriction of visa freedom in a moment. However, it should be up to each sovereign state to decide for itself who shall benefit from travel facilitation. Accordingly, Romania and Bulgaria are likewise free to decide whether they want to make it easier or more difficult for particular countries’ citizens to get into their countries. I also consider Canada’s asylum policy – which makes a clear distinction between applicants from democratic and undemocratic countries – to be a sensible one. By its very definition, an asylum seeker can only be someone who comes from a country in which he or she is persecuted, which can hardly apply in the case of democratic EU countries. The EU should rather learn from the example of Canada’s asylum policy. Canada was and remains a fundamentally generous country when it comes to immigration. However, if you have had negative experiences of so-called tourists who then disappear, people who exploit your hospitality and confuse it with freedom of establishment, then I can quite understand why even Canada has concerns about this kind of immigration."@en1
lpv:videoURI	<go to Events_and_structure europarl>2

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