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TRANSCRIPT H: SELECT COMITTER RÊ HONG KONG 24 MAY 1989
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MR. TIX RENTON:
Mr. Lawrence, I think that it is impossible to
equate giving an effective right to settle in this country with an eventual claim to citizenship here in any measure
with our accession to the Treaty of Rome.
First, the point is always made to us
very clearly in the evidence you took
and I see it
that the people in
Hong Kong do not effectively want to come here, but they want, let us say an insurance policy which they could
Under those
exercise if need demanded that they should.
circumstances, one must accept that a large number would
want to come here. That is, of course. not part and
parcel of the spirit behind the Treaty of Rome at all.
Ve in the Community countries give each other EBC
rights of movement: right of access to in essence the
There is no services of the European Community.
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inherent right.
movement of the French to Britain or the British to Spain
in that that there would be a great
- Just to quote two examples
because each of us within
the Community are by nature and instinct a national
residence and most interested in staying in our own
country. That is, of course, quite apart from the
economic motives the wish to join in a larger trading community, a Community of 350 million people without any frontiers that is the prime mover within the Community at
present.