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"The Pirker report on Community immigration policy has just been made worse by the adoption of Amendment No 17 which claims voting rights for foreign nationals in local elections. In any case, despite Mr Pirker’s laudable efforts, this report is ambiguous in the way it is worded in general, because it does not dare to say clearly that the Commission’s approach, in its communication on immigration, is wrong.
First of all, to a large extent it hides the phenomenon of illegal immigration, and it proposes only partial or distant solutions. In particular, the approach involving co-development with the countries of origin will no doubt be of value in the long term, but it does not mean that we do not need to strengthen our border controls now.
Moreover, the Commission is more or less opening the floodgates to legal immigration. It says that European policy should be based on the fact that migratory pressure will continue (page 14), and from this it draws the conclusion that legislation should be designed so as to facilitate, rather than hinder, the admission of economic migrants (page 19). We, however, do not draw that conclusion at all. On the contrary, we believe that a quota policy should be adopted, with quota levels determined by each Member State on its own behalf, and in our opinion those quotas should be filled, as a matter of priority, by nationals of countries in Eastern Europe, who will soon be members of the Union.
On the subject of the integration of immigrants, the Commission invites us to recognise that integration is a two-way process requiring adaptation by both the immigrants and the society that receives them (page 21). This is not our opinion either. The strangers who come knocking at our door more often than not come from countries which have completely failed to let their population live decently, or even to feed it. It is obviously in the immigrants’ interest to adjust to our way of life and our values. To take the opposite view would be to do them a great disservice, and it would also, in return, do a great disservice to the countries of Europe."@en1
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