Text tabled : A6-0186/2009

  Philip Claeys (NI) , in writing. − (NL) I have voted against this report, because directives of this kind undermine the Member States’ capacity to be in control of their own territories and to take the appropriate measures to maintain law and order. Italy springs to mind, for example, which came under heavy criticism on the basis of this directive because it was believed that it wanted to take strong measures to maintain law and order. The Metock ruling of the Court of Justice also springs to mind, undermining, as it does, the Member States’ immigration policies on the strength of this directive. I am also mindful of Belgium, though, as that country continues to naturalise immigrants on the basis of the world’s most lax nationalisation legislation, with the result that those immigrants are then completely free to cross European borders.