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"Mr President-in-Office of the Council, our timetable means that it falls to you to hold the Presidency during a six-month period which is key to the implementation of the European arrest warrant, a request of this Parliament, a request of my country, Spain. I would ask you please to do everything necessary to make it possible. The European Union must contribute its own approach to the fight against terrorism, particularly since we have seen recently that the military approach has its limitations. It also has it limitations in relation to the issue of immigration. Through military means we resolve nothing, and I am not talking about rights, I am talking about effectiveness. Mr President-in-Office of the Council, there is nothing easier than to criticise the immigration policy of the current government. You, Italy, are a clear example. You attacked the last government on the issue of immigration, and now you are faced with the same or worse problems and you do not even need the opposition to say so: they say it within your own government. You ask us not to bring Italian arguments here. Let us make a pact: I would ask you exactly the same thing. Do not raise the tone by bringing the problems you cannot resolve nationally to the seat of the European Union. Do not bring the Italian debate on immigration here. We do not need it. We do not need an escalation of press headlines. Instead, we need to continue with the Thessaloniki conclusions, with their content and with the tone in which they have been written. We need to establish an admission policy, a policy on border control, on integration – a word which has disappeared from your programme – and dialogue with third countries, not on illegal immigration, but on immigration, on all aspects of immigration. In a measured and rational tone, without mixing up illegality, security and legality, without insinuations which are always at play, not because it is not politically correct, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, but because then we would fail in our management of immigration and in the fight against crime and we cannot afford to do that."@en1
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