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"Mr President, I am speaking on behalf of the Socialist Group in the European Parliament to put the question presented on its behalf by Mr Schulz and Mrs Roure. This question is supplementary to the reports by Mr Gaubert and Mr Lambrinidis on immigration issues. I would like to say that these two reports make an important contribution to resolving the problem of immigration.
In certain countries of the European Union, such as Spain, Italy, Portugal and Greece, this is what happened during an era when time spent abroad was seen simply as a step towards returning to the country of origin and strengthening its economy.
I hope that Commissioner Frattini will help us in this regard – we have a great task ahead of us – and that the Union's institutions, the Commission, the Council and Parliament, can implement the immigration policy which is so essential at the moment.
The main concern is that there should be a comprehensive immigration policy. So far we have just had bits and pieces of policies. Let us hope that on the basis of the resolutions of the last Brussels Summit we can create that comprehensive policy.
A comprehensive immigration policy must begin with the countries of origin, however. In other words, what are we in the European Union doing to prevent immigration from being the only source of income for the inhabitants of many of these countries? That is the first thing we have to consider.
Secondly, given that it is not going to be possible to resolve the problems of the developing countries in the short term, what measures are we taking to protect our external borders, including a legal immigration policy of course – which has been laid down in the Hague programme since December 2005 – so that those citizens who want to come to work in our Union, if the jobs are available, can do so in a legal fashion?
Thirdly, as has just been said in relation to the previous reports, we must bear in mind that, at the moment, while no European Union immigration policy is in place, each country must bear the costs and the work of that policy. There are currently a series of border countries, and not just in the South of Europe, but also in the centre of Europe, which are having to endure an excessive burden in terms of caring for these illegal immigrants on a humanitarian level.
To date we have had minimal resources. For this year we apparently have just EUR 5 700 000. Let us hope that, when the financial perspective is approved, from 1 January 2007 we will have more resources. Furthermore, we must remember that these immigrants are not extra-terrestrials, they are not robots or machines, but they are human beings who have to live in society, who have family and emotional needs which must be met.
Above all, what Europe cannot tolerate is having two classes of citizens here: those who – to use the terms of a sector of the French far right – are
that is, of European origin, and those who are not, because, as we have seen recently, that is the source of a series of social problems that are very difficult to resolve.
We must integrate immigrants into our societies. They cannot be left outside of the central current of our society. An immigrant, or the children and grandchildren of immigrants, have the right to live as people, under the same conditions as all other citizens of the Union.
We must also consider that the flow of immigration does not necessarily have to be completely irreversible. In the heart of every immigrant is the desire to return to their country of origin. What are we doing to ensure that immigrants have the opportunity to maintain their ties with their countries of origin, so that they can return to their countries of origin without having to endure all of those horrendous illegal immigration procedures, so that their stay outside of the countries of origin is seen as nothing more than a transitional stage, so that, when they return, they can enrich the society of the countries of origin?"@en1
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