Adeline Hazan, MEP
Party of European Socialists
Adeline Hazan of France has served in the European Parliament since 1999. The following is excerpted from December 18, 2002, European Parliament debate on Immigration Policy.Many things have already been said, but I would like to take this opportunity to condemn Europe’s lack of unity with regard to the particularly sensitive issue of harmonizing the asylum and immigration policies, an issue which is all too often supplanted by that of combating illegal immigration.Is it worthwhile refreshing the failing memory of our governments of Article 63 of the [Amsterdam] Treaty, which defines the process leading to the harmonization and communitarization of…
