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Madam President, first of all I would like to congratulate Lilli Gruber and Javier Moreno Sánchez on the excellent work that they have done and the cooperation we have enjoyed together in drawing up the two reports.
The settled position of the EU Commission is for a genuine common immigration policy to be adopted by the 27 Member States. Immigration is indissolubly linked with development and, given the demographic problem faced by the EU today, legal immigration is now a part of the solution to many of Europe’s problems, instead of being just one more problem.
The opportunity of issuing an opinion allowed us at the Committee on Development, in the role of the European Parliament, to safeguard equal rights for both genders, to protect the most vulnerable groups such as female and child immigrants, as well as to provide information and language teaching to newly-arrived immigrants.
Furthermore, account was taken of the brain drain from regions of the world such as Africa where there is an acute demand for human resources in the health sector. These areas suffer each time a doctor leaves his country to seek a better future in the EU.
To this end, we welcome the Commission’s proposal to strengthen circular migration. Immigrants will thus have the possibility of returning to their home country after a period of one year and to take back to their country the knowledge and experience they have acquired in the EU Member States.
It is also vital for the Commission to provide more information on the legal framework that will cover the term ‘circular migration’. On this point I would like to thank Commissioner Franco Frattini for the sensitivity that he has shown on the subject of immigration over the last two years and for his continuing efforts to get the 27 Member States to agree on a common immigration policy."@en1
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