Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-09-26-Speech-3-036"
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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the latest figures given in the annual report on the activities of Eurodac for 2006, which is the biometric tool that Europe uses for monitoring asylum seekers, show that the number of persons who illegally crossed one of the EU borders has increased by 64% since 2005. This worrying development only proves, if proof were needed, that Europe is powerless to control its external borders and to contain the exponential growth in illegal immigration, especially from Africa.
The only crumb of comfort in the report is that Parliament seems to have woken up to the fact that the en-masse regularisation of immigrants who have illegally entered the territory of the European Union is not in itself a solution and will not solve the problem. Well hallelujah! Nevertheless, Spain, Belgium, France, Italy and the Netherlands first had to resort to this dangerous policy of regularisation, which inevitably gave rise to the so-called ‘aspiration’ phenomenon and by this fact influenced the migratory flows of their European neighbours, before this awareness finally dawned on them.
Let us be positive, however. We have at least made a start. However, if we are to fight illegal immigration effectively there is one measure that has to be introduced as a matter of urgency: re-establish the European Union’s external border controls. This gimmick that is Frontex, a real empty shell with insufficient men or equipment that is not even supported by some European countries, anxious as they are to preserve their sovereignty over immigration management, will never save Europe from this infernal spiral.
Europe itself is to blame for the continuing and exponential problem of immigration by having signed-up to the criminal Schengen agreements. It must annul these, and quickly."@en1
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