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We voted against the European Parliament’s resolution on immigration and asylum policy in particular because it attacks the Council several times, accusing it of ‘‘obstructing progress’’ in the adoption of the texts.
In reality, what we have here is a struggle between two concepts of immigration policy: the States meeting in the Council are trying to push through a (relatively) restrictive concept, whereas the Commission is constantly putting much more open proposals on the table, which might be said to be based on the idea that the rights of immigrants and refugees take precedence over the right of the citizens of the countries of Europe to security.
The European Parliament is clearly showing here whose side it is on. Moreover, it is explicitly calling for the speedy adoption of the Commission’s lax proposals on allowing immigrants’ families to join them and the rights of long term resident immigrants, even going so far as to say that those rights must be ‘as close as possible to those of European citizens’.
Unfortunately, the Treaty of Nice (which the governments of the States wanted) provides that these questions will soon be settled by qualified majority in the Council: that will be another factor in the Commission’s favour, to get its proposals adopted."@en1
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