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"Mr President, Mr Haarder, at the last Justice and Home Affairs Council, thanks to the complexity of Community procedures, you adopted a very effective measure in the fight against illegal immigration, but you probably did not realise – because it was the final point on the agenda – that, without debate, you approved the conclusion of an agreement extending and increasing the quotas for the import of tomatoes from Morocco.
Apart from this decision, you have not taken any great measures, either in this Council or in any other, in relation to the field of immigration at least.
We have on the table a full range of proposals from the Commission in relation to immigration policies, a proactive immigration policy, and I will not list them since I will bore Parliament if I do so in every speech. None of them have been adopted.
At the European Council in Seville, without having done its homework in this field, the Council once again established priorities and time limits in relation to immigration policy. They began to talk there less about this policy and more about the fight against illegal immigration. But we have not made much progress on that either. In any event, what did happen there was to begin to talk about this in a different way which gives me some concern. They began to talk about the return of immigrants, the control of external borders, in a way in which there is not much room for many concrete proposals. There was talk of security, the term border control was introduced into this field and, listening to you, it appears that illegal immigration has to do with lack of security. If you take a walk around our cities, you will see that illegal immigration has more to do with domestic staff, people working in agriculture and people working in our restaurants. And we know who they are. To give you a figure, in my country, and in just one town close to Barcelona, L'Hospitalet, which has 800 000 inhabitants, 17 670 people have been recorded, many of them illegal immigrants.
During this period, the Commission has presented two proposals which provide a global approximation of the issue, as laid down in the Tampere conclusions: the Green Paper on return, the inclusion of the immigration policy in the Union’s external policy. Of course, this global approximation must include a repressive aspect, but in order to ensure the fulfilment of an immigration policy, in order to control illegal employment – if Berlusconi will allow me – in order to establish a policy for integration of external trade. If we do not have this global approximation, if we do not focus on this approach, we are not going to be effective in the fight against illegal immigration."@en1
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