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The question was put on a personal basis. I can reply both personally and as the Greek Presidency. This does not mean that my reply reflects the position of the 15. As you know, there are countries which consider that these issues – relating to the integration of immigrants, in other words – are internal issues. On the other hand, however, failure to integrate immigrants living, in their millions no less, in the Member States of the European Union, often causes particularly acute social situations and these often also have serious repercussions at political level, with highly undesirable consequences. Given that the European model – this social, political and economic model – is characterised by internal social convergence which perhaps is hard to find in many other countries of the world and, consequently, we need to keep it as a very basic element both for our countries and our continent, I personally consider that, on the issue of the integration of immigrants, there must also be coordination of policies at Community level, because any serious social and political tension in one country is something that is also of particular importance to the other countries."@en1
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