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Mr President, besides the previous speaker’s reservations about the resemblance with a new Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe, which is being rammed down our throats in a completely undemocratic way, the European Presidency has evidently made it a kind of prime objective to achieve a breakthrough on a common European immigration policy. The least that can be said in this regard is that such a policy at European level, decided in none-of-my-business cenacles by means of the particularly dubious Commission and Council decision-making with which we are sadly already familiar, would be completely undemocratic.
The immigration problem affects our citizens personally and their private sphere. Besides, in my view, the transfer of decision-making in this area to European level with no real visibility to anyone is not only undemocratic but plain dangerous.
The Portuguese proposal to ‘channel’ illegal immigration via legal immigration is too absurd for words. Illegal immigration must be tackled by means of a ‘tit for tat’ policy, a firm policy of tracing and expulsion, watertight external border controls, and also European detention and reception centres in the countries, or at least the continent, of origin.
As regards what has been described as the ‘absolute necessity’ of legal immigration, I should like to point out that Europe already has approximately 20 to 25 million unemployed, among them millions of unemployed immigrants, with all this entails. A new wave of legal immigration, with all the associated ‘family reunifications’, would only mean an exponential increase in the particularly serious problems of integration and assimilation.
If it is really only a matter of highly skilled workers – which I dispute – then we are organising a brain drain from the poor countries, which is absolutely scandalous; or is it the intention to keep countries poor and underdeveloped – in which case the Council should just say so?"@en1
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