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"In its resolution on preparations for the Seville European Council to be held on 21-22 June 2002, the European Parliament has made an appeal for a ‘communitarised’ European immigration policy based on the provisions of the Treaty of Amsterdam.
There is a serious misunderstanding on this point. The immigration situation may be getting out of control in Europe, but it is not because there is no supranational policy. It is because for a long time neither the Member States nor the Commission have wanted to give absolute priority to the safety of the public and to controlling immigration, which inevitably means combating clandestine immigration and regulating legal migration flows.
Just the opposite has happened in fact. Both the Member States and the Commission have given priority to uncontrolled freedom of movement, to dismantling internal borders, to a benevolent attitude toward asylum-seekers – even those who are clearly abusing the system – and to the belief that massive immigration would solve our demographic problems and lack of dynamism.
The result is now clear for all to see. But the solution is not supranational integration of immigration policy based on false priorities. The first part of the solution is to change those priorities, but we are still a long way from doing that today."@en1
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