Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-01-14-Speech-3-185"
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"Mr President, the report that we are now discussing catalogues Utopian views, which, like all Utopian views, will prove unworkable in practice. To begin with, migratory flows are not an inescapable reality, as the rapporteur says. Just because he and his political allies want it does not mean that immigration is an inescapable disaster. On the contrary, until further notice, Member States still have the right to determine for themselves who enters the country, when and under what conditions. Also, the fact that most governments are extremely lax in applying their own immigration and integration legislation does not mean that the population is in agreement. For example, there is by no means a popular democratic majority in favour of foreign nationals having the right to vote or in favour of new waves of immigration, as the report argues.
In our opinion, as democrats, there can be no harm in stopping to think about this and taking it into consideration. After all, what legitimacy does a European Union have that takes decisions that are diametrically opposed to the will of the people? The discussion on rights without obligations that unfortunately also finds expression in this report, has had its day. It has been superseded, and it is urgently in need of comprehensive evaluation. In the Netherlands, for example, a commission of inquiry has been set up to look into the current integration policy, and two governing parties have already come to the conclusion that the policy of cosseting has been a failure.
The report does not say a single word about the socio-economic or social problems that currently exist. In Flanders, for example, unemployment among people of North African origin is four to five times that of the indigenous population, in relative terms, so that the question arises as to who actually has an interest in a new form of immigration. Also, what about the indigenous people who no longer feel at home in their own town, their own street, as it is? What about the rise of Islam and the deliberate unwillingness to integrate? None of this is mentioned, and therefore this report is, I fear, yet another waste of time and resources."@en1
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