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I agree with the initiative taken by Germany to propose a directive making it possible to improve the organisation of the transit of third country nationals expelled by a Member State, when the plane which transports them has to stop in the territory of another Member State.
With regard to form, this text makes intelligent use of the right of initiative which Article 67 of the EC Treaty reserves provisionally for the Member States in this field. In theory, this right should have been abolished on 1 May 2004 and the monopoly on initiative should revert in full to the Commission. We hope that the Member States will be able to stop this disastrous process at the next intergovernmental conference.
I regret to say that the left has taken advantage of this opportunity to table amendments that restrict the right of expulsion, even annexing a minority opinion demanding ‘a total halt to deportations (to the country of origin) [...] and a permanent right to remain for all people in Europe’. Here, again, there is evidence of a way of thinking that insidiously influences many European proposals, such as the very text on family reunification that Parliament adopted yesterday.
We were therefore obliged to vote against the Kirkhope report which, by a strange turn of events, was eventually rejected."@en1
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