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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, from a personal point of view and, above all, on behalf of the Socialist Group in the European Parliament, I am delighted by the outcome of the vote in the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, for it has enabled substantial improvements to be made to the draft report that we had initially.
It is, in actual fact, an issue on which we need to have a common approach. It is no longer possible to continue carrying out isolated policies on these matters. We believe that an economic migration policy goes hand in hand with an integration policy. We are also keen to point out that immigration can be a positive factor for the European Union. Other ideas of which we are in favour are introducing a European green card, which would make it easier for immigrants to find jobs, and granting immigrants who have lived on EU territory for at least five years the right to vote in local and European elections but not, by any means, in national elections, contrary to what Mrs Klamt said a few weeks ago. We would point out that regularisations have enabled men and women who were exploited by unscrupulous employers while working illegally to emerge from the shadows. Finally, we would point out the need to develop genuine integration policies. In short, it is a question of finding a means to deal with an indisputable fact: Europe’s population is ageing and, consequently, a new workforce is required.
Admittedly, we are only talking here about an own-initiative report following on from a Green Paper, but these are – and I emphasise this fact – so many altogether crucial factors which really are supported by the majority of this House and which therefore ought to be looked at more closely by the Commission, when it drafts its proposal on this matter. Only a few moments ago, Mr Frattini informed us of a draft action plan. I hope that he will take account of these altogether crucial factors. Legislation drafted on such an important subject would be worthy of the European Parliament’s full involvement, for today it is our responsibility – I would even say our duty – finally to give our opinion in favour of a common policy on legal migration.
Let us not forget that, by completely putting a stop to legal channels of immigration, we are only contributing to the rise in illegal immigration. Let us be totally honest and acknowledge that, until now, all of the policies solely and exclusively founded on repression have failed and that we might have to accept the need to do things differently and, in particular, increase development in immigrants’ countries of origin. It is by doing this, above all, that we will succeed in reducing the migratory pressure of which these countries are the source."@en1
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