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"Mr President, the lesson we are learning from many of the speeches today in the Chamber in relation to the Stockholm Programme and in the debate yesterday, for example on the oral question in relation to voluntary permanent settlement of asylum seekers, is that with codecision and the extra powers that we have had since Lisbon, the Stockholm Programme is rapidly showing us that there is a real imbalance between the inertia of the Council and the willingness of Parliament – the people in this Chamber – and the Commission to do things. We see that repeatedly. This is now the common denominator of so many of the essential files we have on the table and so many of the problems we have with implementation.
That inertia was obvious yesterday, when only seven Member States were willing to deal with the emergencies we see with asylum problems. Some Member States are burdened and others are perhaps willing to take some asylum seekers, but we have no proposals on the table. If this is the common denominator then we have to unplug these difficulties. That is the problem underlying so many of our issues here, but that does not mean that we have not made progress. Through determination we have made progress on victims of crime and human trafficking in trying to complete the Common Asylum System. This has all been done through determination, and this mid-term review should recognise all those advances.
But also in the Stockholm Programme we should realise that, with the tools we have, we should attack the difficult problems. For example, we said we would address legal migration and, of course, one of the only files left – intra-corporate transferees and seasonal workers – involves dealing with some of the difficult files in the midst of austerity, and that will be very tough. It is important that we make progress and recognise in this mid-term review that we have that task, but also that we make progress on procedural rights, data protection and other areas. It is important in this mid-term review that we are honest."@en1
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