2. Immigration - Legal migration - Policy priorities in the fight against illegal immigration of third-country nationals (debate)

Verbatim reports

Council and Commission statements: Immigration

Report on the policy plan on legal migration [2006/2251(INI)] - Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs. Rapporteur: Lilli Gruber (A6-0322/2007)

Report on policy priorities in the fight against illegal immigration of third-country nationals [2006/2250(INI)] - Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs. Rapporteur: Javier Moreno Sánchez (A6-0323/2007)

Manuel Lobo Antunes (President-in-Office of the Council) and Franco Frattini (Vice-President of the Commission) made the statements.

Lilli Gruber introduced the report (A6-0322/2007).

Javier Moreno Sánchez introduced the report (A6-0323/2007).

The following spoke: Manolis Mavrommatis (draftsman of the opinion of the DEVE Committee), Maria Badia i Cutchet (draftsman of the opinion of the CULT Committee), Marie Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou (draftsman of the opinion of the FEMM Committee), Joseph Daul, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, and Claudio Fava, on behalf of the PSE Group.

IN THE CHAIR: Gérard ONESTA
Vice-President

The following spoke: Graham Watson, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Cristiana Muscardini, on behalf of the UEN Group, Jean Lambert, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Giusto Catania, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Roger Knapman, on behalf of the IND/DEM Group, Alessandro Battilocchio, Non-attached Member, Mikel Irujo Amezaga, who reported a problem in the interpretation into Spanish and raised the issue of the rules in force governing languages in Parliament (see Minutes of 26.09.2007, Item 1), Alfredo Antoniozzi, Bárbara Dührkop Dührkop, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, Mario Borghezio, Kathalijne Maria Buitenweg, Nils Lundgren, Marine Le Pen, Irena Belohorská, Patrick Gaubert, Martine Roure, Jean-Marie Cavada, Roberts Zīle, Hélène Flautre, Pedro Guerreiro, Patrick Louis, Jim Allister, József Szájer, Stavros Lambrinidis, Mogens N.J. Camre, Raül Romeva i Rueda and Kyriacos Triantaphyllides.

IN THE CHAIR: Mario MAURO
Vice-President

The following spoke: Manfred Weber, Magda Kósáné Kovács, Simon Busuttil, Wolfgang Kreissl-Dörfler, Agustín Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Inger Segelström, Carlos Coelho, Genowefa Grabowska, Barbara Kudrycka, Josep Borrell Fontelles, Philip Bradbourn, Louis Grech, Libor Rouček, Manuel Lobo Antunes and Franco Frattini.

The debate closed.

Vote: Minutes of 26.09.2007, Item 6.6 and Minutes of 26.09.2007, Item 6.7.

(The sitting was suspended at 11.45 pending voting time and resumed at 12.00.)