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"Mr President, like everyone else I first wish to congratulate the rapporteurs on some excellent work.
Immigration is not a new phenomenon, as we are all aware, but what is new is its enormous increase in recent years, and this is due to rising levels of poverty and the fact that increasing numbers of countries are stricken by poverty.
Thus I feel that the main challenge now is to control migratory flows, structure them in accordance with real needs, and ensure higher levels of integration of these people in the host countries, as well as stepping up surveillance of our borders, with policies that provide for repatriation to the countries of origin.
Above all, we must deal with the mafias trafficking in human beings. It is essential to find a response and put an end to the human tragedies relating to illegal immigration: we are in agreement on this point.
Border controls, however, ought to be common to Member States. Shared responsibility and solidarity should go hand in hand.
Now I would like to say a few words on Frontex, which has done some fine work, and I am directing this at the Council, which has just read us out a long list of vessels and helicopters. What I am wondering now is: where are they? It is not good enough for them simply to be on the list. I also feel that the Council is acting in a schizophrenic manner when it requests more assistance for Frontex and cuts back the budget by 2.5% at the same time, against a backdrop of credits already exhausted for the year 2007.
In spite of Frontex, however, we are aware that the influx of immigration will continue regardless of whether we are completely willing to control it: it is our willingness and not legislation that we require, because the Commission and the Council have decided against a single directive on legal conditions for entry to the EU.
It is as though everything we hoped for in Tampere, everything our Socialist Group defended so vigorously, has simply gone up in smoke."@en1
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