Text tabled : B6-0192/2009

  Philip Claeys (NI). - (NL) This resolution certainly contains a few positive elements, such as a call to strengthen Frontex’s mandate and to take initiatives for a European internal security policy, which should complement national security plans. In the end, I decided to vote against it, though, because I find it totally unacceptable that this Parliament, which, after all, is supposed to represent Europe’s citizens, should tenaciously cling to the Lisbon Treaty. The appeal to submit proposals at the earliest opportunity to make the import of foreign workers easier likewise failed to meet with my approval and, in my view, warranted a ‘no’ vote.