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"Madam President, Mrs Halonen, security is one of the main causes of concern for the citizens of Europe. The Tampere Summit will attempt to respond to this important challenge: the creation of a more secure Europe. One of the most important questions at the meeting will be the EU common immigration policy. The idea of a common policy on asylum and supranational burden sharing sounds fine, but it will be very difficult to put into practice. Instead, voluntary burden sharing would serve very well as a basis for Union action. If the desired results are not achieved with voluntary burden sharing, we might consider compensating Member States for costs incurred in respect of refugees flooding into the countries in question. This is something that you also proposed, Mrs Halonen. Otherwise, the use of measures for economic guidance should be approved as part of the policy on refugees practised by the Member States of the Union. For example, in my country, Finland, which is a very long way from places recent crises have focussed on, there is very broad support for the idea of effective aid for destitute people as close as possible to their homes.
Recently, there have been suggestions that responsibility for co-operation in police and legal matters should be transferred from the Third Pillar to the Community. This would, I imagine, make co-operation easier. The proposal, however, will very clearly interfere with the essential authority of nation-states, the right to determine the maintenance of the judicial system, and monitor compliance with the law in their areas. For that reason, we should consider at greater length the good and bad aspects of the proposal. Co-operation under the Third Pillar must be made adequate as long as the EU lacks its own police forces, and co-operation is always therefore based on action by the police forces of the Member States, which a Europol system would attempt to aid. Furthermore, as for the investigatory teams that were suggested, the situation is the same. The question of transferring responsibility to a common authority will become of serious interest only if we want to establish supranational police squads for the Union.
The creation of a European judicial area and establishing a working party to discuss the idea has my full support. The right of our citizens to fair treatment – access to justice – must be ensured and the public must be guaranteed adequate aid if they have to confront the legal authorities of a foreign Member State. I warmly support the idea to set up a working party to discuss the issue. The creation of a European judicial area has to be part of the new people’s Europe."@en1
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