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". – The Seville Conclusions are balanced conclusions. They emphasise the need to fight against illegal immigration, and that is definitely an issue that concerns us all, but at the same time they emphasise the need for the ever better integration of immigration policy into our external relation policies, including the development of a partnership with countries of origin and transit in order to cooperate and have better control of illegal immigration.
In the communication that the Commission issued a few months ago on immigration and development policy, it tried to give you a picture of everything it is doing in the field of development policy that is relevant for migratory flows, not only fighting poverty but also guaranteeing the rule of law and respect for human rights, and guaranteeing there are no 'pull' factors inducing people to leave their own country and travel, sometimes illegally, to the European Union.
Such an approach has been not only a balanced but also a realistic approach. We are developing all the elements of the action plan, not only the operational part, but also the legislative one, and in several areas that you have mentioned, such as asylum legislation, we have been adopting the necessary rules that were provided for by the Tampere programme. It is probably happening more slowly than some political rhetoric might lead one to expect, but at least I can assure you that we are progressing on a solid basis."@en1
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