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"Mr President, 2004 saw significant advances in terms of the area of freedom, security and justice, firstly with the adoption of the Hague programme, which sets the new priorities for the next few years and, secondly, with a Council decision of 22 December, which permits the switch to codecision when it comes to border control, asylum, immigration, judicial cooperation on criminal matters and police cooperation. We cannot but be very pleased that the Council has heard our requests, and we wish to continue in this spirit of dialogue between equal partners in order to ensure the continuity of the progress to be made.
Unfortunately, developments in European immigration policy have mainly been in terms of repressive measures and the fight against illegal immigration. I am therefore delighted that the Commission has presented a Green Paper on economic immigration. I want this Green Paper, however, to permit a wider debate on opening up means of legal immigration and not to be confined to the needs of the European labour market.
Indeed, if a discussion on economic immigration is absolutely necessary to European immigration policy, we are not prepared to shop around in third countries. We must make efforts to come up with lasting solutions for migrants, and ones that respect their fundamental rights. I thus call upon the Member States to permit the switch to codecision where legal immigration is concerned.
2004 also saw the proposal presented for a directive on the procedures concerning the granting and withdrawal of refugee status. I really wish to draw the Council’s and the Commission’s attention to our great concern about this proposal. By allowing too large a number of dispensations, this proposal amounts, indeed, to no more than a levelling down of asylum policy. In the worst case, it is in danger of jeopardising the more protective asylum policies of certain Member States. I am sorry that the Council has not permitted the switch to codecision where this matter is concerned, and I would call upon it to take the anxieties of the European Parliament into consideration.
We wish to ask the Council how matters now stand regarding its proposal concerning data retention, since Commissioner Frattini announced to us that the Commission wished to present its own proposal. Are you going to allow a tool for protecting personal data in the third pillar? The question has been put, and we hope for a reply.
Finally, I would ask the Council to decide, during this week’s JHA Council, again to consult the European Parliament on the framework directive concerning racism and xenophobia, and I look forward to your replies."@en1
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