Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-02-13-Speech-2-058"
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"Mr President, last week the bodies of twelve people who were trying to reach the European Union appeared on the beaches of my country. Last year there were 500.
Mr Prodi talks about bringing the European Union and its institutions closer to the citizens. I believe that the issues which relate to the creation of a European area of justice, freedom and security are, without doubt, very sensitive issues for the citizens of the Union.
With regard to this issue we are in a very strange situation. The Commission's legislative programme is good; Mr Vitorino's proposals are good, they are clearly structured in the scoreboard, a timetable has been laid down for their application and we can talk about them and debate them. There is good communication on immigration – and I hope that Mr Poettering realises this – underpinned by a consensus on moving forward with a common policy. This also applies to asylum and judicial cooperation, for example, as the honourable Member said, in relation to combating terrorism.
However, since Tampere and until last week in Stockholm, the Council has insisted that we have to make progress, has insisted on putting the emphasis on what was decided at that European Council in Tampere. In my view, however, it is acting in an incomprehensible way. There has been no agreement on any of the proposals that are on the table, not on family reunification nor on any other proposal. We are making very gradual progress but at the same time we are seeing a proliferation of individual State initiatives, which disturb the balance of the legislative programme. We are also seeing bilateral or multilateral initiatives and agreements which will lead us goodness knows where, in relation, for example, to the issue of Schengen in the Treaty. We do not know what is going to happen, nor how the work will be done. Schengen has been hijacked by the Member States for the moment.
Mr Prodi, you told this House that there are going to be delays in implementing these policies. You said this before Nice and you added that they were not going to be the fault of the Commission. I would like to ask you: whose fault will this be? What is your Commission going to do to defend this part of the legislative programme which, I repeat, I believe to be a good programme?
Thank you."@en1
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