Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-11-21-Speech-3-187-000"
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"en.20121121.20.3-187-000"2
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"Madam President, since 1997 over 20 000 petitions have been assessed by the Committee on Petitions and every year several hundred petitioners attend the committee and speak on their petitions. That certainly indicates that there is a genuine link between the citizens and the EU institutions. However, the reason that they are there in first place is because there are issues in relation to either the transposition or the implementation of European legislation.
Many petitions have been presented this year but one particular issue has been highlighted again and again, and that is the issue of access for EU citizens. That might be in the area of recognition of their professional qualifications, the portability of social security rights etc.
One particular issue relates to persons with a disability. In theory they are entitled to free movement, to travel, to work and to live in another Member State but if they require a personal assistant then that is a particular obstacle and the whole idea of free movement means nothing because personal assistants are not available in all Member States. If that issue were to be dealt with then I think the idea of free movement would be a reality for those people."@en1
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