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"Mr President, I would like to thank the Commissioner for his statement and the proposals. They are very important proposals and indeed very brave coming at the time of the global migration crisis. As we heard in the previous debate, it is a global migration crisis. But if I start with the first proposal on integration, I was reminded of a Swiss German poet – I cannot remember the name – who, when asked about guest workers in Germany, said ‘we invited guest workers to Germany, unfortunately we got human beings’. The problem is that if we do not manage migration, and if we do not manage the integration of those whom we invite or of those refugees who are deserving of international protection, we will pay the cost. I think the Commissioner has made that point. But the Commission, the European Parliament and of course the Member States above all have to understand that integration is not an option. We will pay the cost if we do not employ those integration measures that we can have at our disposal.
Ultimately, most integration measures are done at local level, but we know from our discussions with the Commission that there are key integration measures that we can advance with the Commission in the labour market that are at our disposal. We know that some countries, like the United Kingdom, will opt out of those and I want to make that clear to those who are listening very carefully to that point.
On the question of the Blue Card, many people throw around issues like the Australian-style points system. Well let us be very clear on the question of the Blue Card: at the moment it is completely unsatisfactory. The issue of managing migration, which everyone wants to talk about across the political spectrum, has to be worthy of the name. If we are going to manage migration for the benefit of migrants in a proper respectful mutual partnership with those countries who are sending migrants, then we have to have a proper well-studied proposal, like the seasonal workers proposal or the student proposal that my colleague Ms Wikström has finished. Legal migration must not be done on the cheap and on the quick. With the Commission we must do it properly, so that we have a proper mutual understanding with the sending countries: no cherry picking, a proper legal migration proposal that is worthy of its name. I thank the Commission for its proposal today."@en1
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