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"Mr President, I wish to speak about the French Republic's initiative on the mutual recognition of decisions on the expulsion of third-country nationals, which aims to prevent the free and unchecked movement within the Union of foreigners who are the subject of an expulsion decision. So we regard it as most opportune at a time when the pressure of illegal immigration is rising and we regret the fact that the European Parliament intends, rather arbitrarily it seems, to reject it.
The French initiative seeks to introduce a kind of mutual application of certain judicial decisions, i.e. a new form of cooperation, which in principle deserves more attention. Under this proposal, if a Member State decides to expel a third-country national who presents a threat to public order or is an illegal resident, another Member State on whose territory that foreigner found himself could automatically enforce the expulsion measure, subject, of course, to any legal appeals. Despite the advantages of this proposal, the European Parliament's responsible committee is rejecting it for two reasons that I do not find convincing.
Firstly, Article 63(3)(b) of the Treaty establishing the European Community would not constitute a relevant legal basis. This is not true because that article is concerned precisely with cooperation measures for the repatriation of illegally resident foreigners. That is very much the case here, since mutual recognition is indeed a measure that comes under that category.
Secondly, we are told yet again that the French initiative is too repressive and that first we need to establish a global European immigration policy. That is obviously a delaying tactic, for its proponents were very careful not to use the same argument a while ago when we were discussing the temporary protection of third-country nationals.
The French Republic's initiative on the mutual recognition of decisions on expulsion therefore certainly deserves to be approved."@en1
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