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"As has already been indicated – although the Commission officially denies this, while implicitly admitting it – the Memorandum of Understanding now being proposed is part of an attempt to achieve a full-blown agreement on the expulsion of immigrants from China, which the EU is continuing to pursue. The Commission even recognises that it is a problem for the EU to pressurise third countries to sign expulsion agreements ‘which mainly benefit the European Union’ if they gain nothing in return.
As has already been highlighted, China has not only protested against the intolerable treatment meted out to its citizens by immigration officials, but it has also effectively blocked the EU's efforts to deport people to China.
This is the reason why the Commission, whilst accepting some slight improvements in the immigration policy, is attempting to achieve its objectives by concluding a more wide-ranging agreement which also includes a readmission clause.
It is therefore rather disingenuous to recommend that the EP should adopt a favourable opinion on the Memorandum of Understanding on the grounds that it is important to encourage Chinese citizens to visit Europe given that China seems likely to become one of the world’s main sources of tourists over the next ten years."@en1
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