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"The European Council of 16-17 October erased from its conclusions the idea of an immigration policy based upon quotas, as proposed by the Italian Presidency.
We sincerely regret this, for such a policy would have represented the first step towards controlling immigration, inasmuch as being able to count and monitor is a necessary precondition of implementing quotas.
Among the opponents, Jacques Chirac, on behalf of France, stated that, at the risk of appearing hesitant about the very idea of limiting immigration, he was
hostile to the very principle of quotas.
Other opponents had better reasons. The Commission showed, in fact, that it intended to use the initiative to construct an integrated European policy of quotas, removing the Member States’ competence to determine the number of immigrant workers they are in a position to welcome. Moreover, it wanted to offer additional quotas to third countries that agreed to take back emigrants of theirs that had come to Europe illegally. That would have been a strange trade-off, rewarding those who would have harmed us when they have a strict duty to take back their illegal emigrants.
In these conditions, it is not surprising that a number of Member States have preferred to scupper the quota policy."@en1
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