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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I too am pleased to be able to state this evening, as Mr Schmit has just said, that we are achieving a genuinely positive example of institutional cooperation between Parliament, the Council and the Commission, and that we are doing so by means of an instrument, the codecision process, that is having its first truly important application here today on a subject that affects people’s everyday lives.
The rapporteur has without doubt carried out some extraordinary work, and the same must be said of the Presidency. The Luxembourg Presidency rightly sought to make a commitment – and the Commission has always supported that commitment – to being able to put a balanced provision to the vote in Parliament at first reading.
This provision has many merits, and it is difficult to point them out in a very few minutes: the first is the balance achieved between the need to confirm the principle of free movement of persons within the Union and the equally crucial requirement for effective controls at the external borders of the European Union. The other significant merit is that of having adapted a number of procedures originating in a purely intergovernmental domain to the context of the European Union.
We have taken a step forward. I am referring to the principle of reintroducing internal border controls for obvious reasons of policing, effectively for reasons of security: it was an extremely sensitive subject, and any false move would have been genuinely counterproductive. There then follows a positive item for the Commission: the involvement and active participation of the Commission in the process of reintroducing the controls.
That is another sign, which I believe is important, of how the European Commission can offer a constant and – I am certain of this and I will obviously strive for this – constructive contribution to ensuring the optimum application of that regulation.
I will conclude by saying, Mr President, that those signs are the signs that the European citizens are waiting for. They are signs of faith in a Europe, in a European Union, which is alive, which can continue to make progress and to obtain tangible results. Security and freedom are two pillars of the European Union, and there is a good balance in this provision: I would say it is an exemplary case to point out."@en1
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