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The Italian Presidency has cited immigration policy and the fight against illegal immigration as being among its priorities, and we assure it of our support.
We hope, in particular, that it will prove to be clearer and more resolute than the Thessaloniki Council, held two weeks ago. Although it devoted a large proportion of its conclusions to immigration policy – seven and a half pages, compared with the one and a half that came out of the Convention – the Council was particularly obscure, even impossible to understand, defining, in particular, its objective in terms of a ‘two-way process’, aimed at simultaneously fighting illegal immigration and exploring ‘legal migration channels’.
Europe now needs a clear, firm policy for controlling its borders, returning illegal immigrants to their own countries and reforming the right of asylum in order to put an end to abuses. On this subject, we are sorry that the Thessaloniki Council did not really deal with the British demand that transit centres be created, responsible for examining asylum requests at the EU’s external borders, together with ‘regional protection zones’ close to the countries of origin of those requesting asylum. We are relying upon the Italian Presidency to make progress on this issue."@en1
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