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"Mr President, the big news from the Tampere Summit is that apparently there is the political will to produce common European policy. The political role of the Commission and of this Commissioner will be strengthened as a result. Some essential fundamental principles were also reaffirmed such as the right to seek asylum and the fight to combat racism and discrimination. It goes without saying that this is all to the good. But it is still a matter of first seeing then believing.
The decisions taken still need to be given substance and some policy options have not made it. The proposed common European asylum system still falls a long way short of the idea of integrated European policy. The notion of spreading the burden between the Member States is still taboo. A European approach to migration as such is not a realistic proposition at this stage. We are talking in terms of a policy of determent at the very most. And it remains to be seen how exactly the Council proposes to improve the rights of people from third countries.
The Commission should take the lead in drawing up a further agenda and Parliament must be enabled to play its rightful role where all of these issues are concerned. Cooperation in the fields of criminal and civil law establishes the principle of mutual recognition as the crux of the strategy. That may sound modest but it is probably a sensible choice in view of the disbelief and repugnance that this development still seems to evoke amongst the professional circles that lawyers move in. A great deal of work still remains to be done here to get the message across.
In this context, setting up EUROJUST is a bold initiative. Hence it is all the more a pity that the parliamentary control aspect has been swept under the carpet.
On a final note: the Charter of Fundamental Rights. Now that a decision has been taken on the composition of the forum that is to compile the Charter, it is high time that we determined what the status of this document is to be. So far, the Council has left this matter up in the air. If this Charter is to have any added value then it must become binding law to which every EU citizen can appeal. To that end, it will have to be incorporated into the Treaties."@en1
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