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"Mr President, the new priorities of the area of freedom, security and justice must, above all, be the promotion and protection of fundamental rights, and not only those of Europeans but also those of third country nationals. This objective can, moreover, only be achieved if the efforts made to develop this area are not confined to creating a Fortress Europe. The debate on asylum must be refocused upon Europe’s humanitarian duty. We must, indeed, preserve the right of asylum. All those in danger must be able to find refuge in Europe.
Our objective is still to obtain an acceptable level of European harmonisation. It turns out that the first phase has not led to the harmonisation we wanted. Harmonisation has mainly been from the bottom up. It is therefore vital that we as quickly as possible enable new legislative instruments to be adopted. We must have an overall approach to the management of migration flows and of borders. I welcome the Presidency’s proposal to make the transition, on 1 April 2005, to qualified majority voting and to codecision for the whole of the chapter on asylum, immigration and borders, and I call for those Member States which are not convinced to allow, as quickly as possible, this transition to codecision in all areas in accordance with Article 67 of the Treaty.
European cooperation against terrorism should also continue to be strengthened and, in particular, it should be made easier for the relevant national services and the services responsible for the fight against terrorism to exchange information. This must go hand in hand with a strengthening of the roles of Europol and Eurojust. We therefore call upon the Member States to remain faithful to the spirit of Tampere in order to respond to these challenges."@en1
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