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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I wish to begin by congratulating our rapporteur, Mr Böge, and those who collaborated with him for the volume and high quality of their work and for the political vision that inspired their report. As the draftsman of the opinion of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, I have no complaints. Indeed, I am delighted to say that I fully endorse the line proposed by the Böge report on the important domain of freedom, security and justice, which, in both budgetary and structural terms, is recognised and enshrined as one of the EU’s fundamental priorities.
I note with satisfaction that the Böge report proposes – as I had requested, incidentally – that this area of activity be ‘ringfenced’, as it were, within Heading 3 by the creation of a separate subheading that would guarantee the funding required for its development.
I am also pleased to see that the report proposes an appreciable increase in the relevant budgetary appropriations, which will serve to intensify the fight against organised crime and against terrorism, to improve the system of controls at the EU’s external borders and to ensure that the common immigration and asylum policies are pursued effectively.
Lastly – and this is a purely personal point, Mr President, which I make as a Member elected in Wallonia – I wish to say very clearly, in words addressed to the Prime Minister of the Walloon region, Jean-Claude Van Cauwenberghe, that I wholeheartedly support the call made in paragraph 58 of the report for protection of the legitimate interests of the regions that have been subject to the statistical effect of enlargement. This should save Mr Van Cauwenberghe the effort of issuing another blatantly untruthful statement."@en1
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