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To a large extent, the Union is gambling its future on the success or failure of a common immigration policy. It is a challenge and an opportunity. This programme, directed at countries in which immigration originates and transit countries in order to help them to manage migratory flows, is essential and deserves our support.
The management of migratory flows affects the demography, the economic and social balance and the harmonious coexistence of the Community’s citizens. The common immigration policy must take this into account and ensure that Member States have margin for manoeuvre in terms of managing their migratory flows.
The programme contributes to creating a common legal and administrative culture for the handling of the phenomenon of migration based on our principles and values of respect for people. That is the only way we can effectively combat marginalisation and the organised crime of human trafficking, which causes so many victims each year.
We must strengthen European immigration policy through concrete actions: joint repatriations of illegal immigrants, the implementation of a European visa bank or the common management of external borders. The latter, with shared responsibility, must be extended to third countries, to the Union’s partners, by means of the including in Association Agreements a clause on cooperation in the field of immigration."@en1
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