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"If there is one thing I cannot be accused of, it would be underestimating the importance of border controls. On the contrary, it is common knowledge that I am campaigning for the total re-establishment of the sovereign rights of Member States to determine the conditions for entering and remaining in their territory, and to coordinate compliance with those conditions. However, we are, alas, in the Schengen area, and States are supposed to ensure that their own border controls benefit everybody. Thus, the proposal for a decision to establish a list of travel documents which may be endorsed with a visa is not, in itself, in this context, absurd.
On the other hand, it is absurd, in terms of security and the fight against illegal immigration, to leave the Commission to draw up this list and deem documents to be recognised as valid if Member States do not state their position on the aforementioned list during a specified period, on the principle that silence implies consent. On the contrary, it should have been presumed that silence automatically implied a refusal to recognise certain documents as legal. We call this an implied refusal, a common notion in public law. This is why I abstained from voting on this report."@en1
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