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"Madam President, with regard to the question on Greece, of course, the borders of the Member States of the Union are to be respected. The very objective of these agreements is for those borders to be respected.
When there is an agreement with a third country through which illegal immigration may pass, and there is a readmission agreement – which is the objective – and therefore the European Union’s agreements with that third country are strengthened – which is the global approach and the philosophy of the European Pact on Immigration – what is happening is that the borders of the Member States of the Union are being strengthened. That is the effect. If we do not have this effective control of illegal immigration because there is insufficient cooperation with other countries, because there are no readmission agreements, those borders are weakened in practice. The objective of these negotiations and readmission agreements is therefore clearly to strengthen borders, which of course includes Greece’s borders.
With regard to the question from the honourable Member about British citizens that have moved to Spain and invested some of their savings there, I must say that I am obviously not here representing Spain as a country in its judicial relations with citizens who are there, but rather I am representing the Council of the Union. Those relations or any problems that there may be are settled in the independent courts of the Spanish State. I will therefore refrain from speaking on behalf of a specific country on specific matters that are not relevant to European Union law."@en1
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