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"I do not think that I am a coward, but it was an honour and a pleasure for me to participate in the drafting of the report and I am pleased that it has won the support both of the Commission and of most of those who have spoken. The question of immigration and integration of migrants has been the subject of decisions within the European institutions for a long time. Tampere and The Hague gave particular prominence to this set of issues and to compliance with the Geneva Convention, and in late 2003 this Parliament approved an epoch-making resolution in the report by Claude Moraes. The present draft – thanks to the sensitivity demonstrated by the rapporteur on this issue – treats illegal migration primarily as a security policy issue and analyses the dual nature of the determining factors of legal migration. People arriving from third countries need to be able to live a decent human life. Providing this is not just a human-rights obligation for EU Member States; it is also increasingly becoming sound economic sense.
This new approach to these issues is inevitable under the relaunched Lisbon process. It is to the credit of the rapporteur that he analyses economic migration not in a laboratory context, imprisoned by papers, but on the basis of the current economic and social situation here and now. Europe is ageing and additional sources of labour are declining; at the same time, meanwhile, unemployment and inactivity are high. The lessons from the French and Dutch referenda also indicate that the citizens of the old Member States perceive the presence of workers from the new Member States in their labour markets as a threat and xenophobia accompanied the debate from start to finish.
Even facts are weak in the face of emotions, however. Data from the German research institute DIW show a dynamic increase in the development of economies that did not impose restrictions on labour supply reinforcements arriving from the new Member States. It thus makes economic sense, too, if workers from the new Members States are no longer kept in quarantine for six years and if they are not put in some intermediate, second place between workers from the old Member States and those from third countries. It is to the credit of the rapporteur that the report avoids the temptation of opting for easy solutions, such as introducing a quota system or a sectoral basis for accepting immigrants. It proposes means for preventing human and economic conflict, improving foreign affairs work and providing effective information. It calls upon Member States to use appropriate statutory means to reduce the vulnerability of people making a living from atypical employment. For all these reasons, as someone who has been involved in working on the report, I wholeheartedly commend the report to you for adoption."@en1
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