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"The resolution which the European Parliament has just adopted on immigration policy, despite the Union for a Europe of Nations Group voting against this, retroactively justifies all the fears which we expressed when the Treaty of Amsterdam was ratified. This House has been utterly lax on the substance and yet, at the same time, is asking for ever greater decision-making power to the detriment of the national parliaments. The combination of these two positions makes for a mixture which could be disastrous for the future for Europe.
I counted no less than seven calls in the resolution, at different points, for equal rights for European citizens and legal immigrants. This has become a real obsession. As for the fight against illegal immigration, this House is hardly interested. There is absolutely nothing in the resolution on border controls. Even when the question of Eurodac or readmission clauses is briefly mentioned, it is only to deplore the over-strictness of the Council on these subjects. Yet the standard call for a fund for refugees, financed from the Community budget, is there.
Finally, the European Parliament calls for a review of immigration policy in view of the population situation. It is clear what this means. At the same time, the resolution calls for new codecision powers for the European Parliament on immigration. You can imagine what would come of this. As was to be expected, the Commission has just lent its support in the opinion tabled for the Intergovernmental Conference.
Our group believes that it would be dangerous to go down this road. Instead, on these matters, we should stick with the people and national sovereignty. This is why the procedures of the first pillar on the single market must not be transposed exactly as they are for the areas of security, justice or foreign policy. For these areas, the Intergovernmental Conference must devise new cooperation procedures based on the political role of the Council and interparliamentary control exercised by the national parliaments."@en1
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