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Mr President, it has been a real privilege to work on this dossier, primarily because when we began people told us we would not complete it under the Austrian presidency, let alone under the Luxembourg presidency.
The importance of this has been underlined by the previous speakers. It is the first time that the Parliament has acted in codecision in the area of asylum, immigration and border control. It is extremely important that the Parliament dealt with this dossier in a mature, reasonable and practicable way. Wish lists are for the past. Of course we have not achieved everything that we in Parliament wanted; as we know that is the nature of compromise. That is not to say that compromise is a bad word, it is a brilliant word. Compromise is the whole notion on which the European project was built in the early 1950s and in 1957. I am proud that today we are legislating. In this House, and indeed in our other institutions, we talk too much and do not deliver enough. Tonight we are legislating and bringing forward changes that will have a real effect on real lives.
As was mentioned earlier, each of us, especially as politicians, can talk a defining moment into a crisis. But what do we achieve in doing this? We actually reinforce the argument from eurosceptics and the europhobes that this House means nothing and achieves nothing. We have difficulties, but out of difficulties comes a rebirth, a renaissance. Without a renaissance there is nothing for the future. So, codecision does not have to be slow, but it has to be thorough and it has to be built on absolute mutual respect for each of the parties involved in the negotiations.
Why have we have achieved so much? Because we have done it on the basis that only by acting together can we achieve more than we could ever achieve by acting alone.
I have to thank my fellow rapporteurs. There have been no shadows in this report; we have been equal rapporteurs, equal participants and without them we could not have presented this document today.
I would like to thank Mr Battilocchio for the opinion he gave on behalf of the Committee on Development. More importantly, I would like to thank those people who sit behind us – sometimes seen, sometimes unseen: our assistants and our advisers, without whom we could not do this work. Those people are so rarely thanked.
So let me say once again, we have achieved a great deal. We have reinforced the role of the Parliament, especially in the re-introduction of internal borders. We have reinforced the role of the Commission, but again I wish we could have done more in relation to spot checks on the application of the Schengen
which was not possible. I wanted us to have a right of appeal or for the European Court of Justice to have jurisdiction. We did not achieve this, but we achieved a great deal more. On non-discrimination akin to Article 13 of the Treaty of Amsterdam, for example, there is the right of people undergoing second line checks to have those checks conducted with dignity and, if necessary, in a non-public area. On refusal of entry, there will be clearer explanations of the justification of that refusal and the right of appeal once the appellant has returned to their country of origin. And where appeals are successful, the necessary compensation will be provided according to national law and corrections. We have reinforced and upheld the principle of freedom of movement for EU citizens and others with a right to reside which, in a Eurobarometer poll, was seen as the single biggest benefit of being in the European Union.
As an inclusion to the main body of text, the annexes are extremely important when we come to adopt and review this regulation in future. Regular reports on the implementation of the regulation are to be compiled by the Commission. Also, very importantly, there is the declaration by the Council and the Parliament on the issue of stateless citizens which states that ‘the European Parliament and the Council request the Commission to bring forward proposals, in the framework of the revision of Regulation (EC) No 539/2001, in order to exempt holders of aliens’ and non-citizens’ passports residing in a Member State from the visa obligation’.
I am proud of what we have done, I am proud of the collaboration and I now wait to hear from my co-rapporteurs."@en1
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