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"Mr President, in relation to the words of Mr Galeote, I would like to say that this morning I ate my breakfast with certain comments by the President of the European Council, in which he says that the European Socialists are guilty of promoting, through their policies, the emergence in Europe of extremist and radical movements and that, in contrast, the President of the Spanish Government and the Council expresses his desire to toughen the immigration policy.
For a moment I thought this morning that Mr Rajoy would come here to communicate the good news of a new immigration policy which – according to Mr Aznar – was going to counterbalance these errors of European Socialism which have led to the emergence of the extreme right. I am delighted to see that this is not the case, that you have settled for an explanation of the conclusions of the Tampere European Council, the main approach of the European Council’s proposals over recent months. I am delighted about this and I am therefore only going to speak about this field.
I believe that we also have differing points of view on this, Minister. As Mr Patten has said, we have on the table a legislative working programme – but not only that – presented by the Commission following the Tampere conclusions. Two and a half years after that Council there has been little progress. You have mentioned some progress and I will return to that.
This has an impact on both the content and on interinstitutional relations. I am referring to cooperation with Parliament. I must say, Minister, that we are perplexed by situations such as the one created by the approval in the Council of the proposal on admission conditions for asylum seekers. We are perplexed because you tell us that you are going to look at what Parliament’s proposals are. I must tell you that they are proposals on a first draft which bears no relation to the one adopted and it will be difficult for us to go on working like this.
We have the same problem with the common rules on entry for residence, the body of rights for third-country citizens. For us, all of this takes the form of concrete proposed directives the results of which we have not seen during these years following Tampere. You tell me that there have been results. I would like to ask you what they are.
The fight against illegal immigration is a part of this immigration policy which is yet to become a common European policy, but I believe that it would be much more effective if it were part of a genuine common structure of immigration policies. I am in favour of it, but I am also in favour of an immigration policy which is better suited to the needs of the labour market, because otherwise, Minister, this lack of suitability will lead to irregular contracts, or rather a lack of contracts, and I believe that this is the worst of the ‘
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Finally, and in line with the working plan proposed by the Commission and which the Council should adopt, I would like to ask the following four questions: What does the Council think of Mr Prodi’s proposal with regard to border police? What does the Council think about the Green Paper on repatriation? Can you give us a timetable for the implementation of the Tampere proposals? What does the Council think of their content given the way they have been presented by the Commission?"@en1
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