Jules Maaten, MEP
European Liberal, Democrat, and Reform Party
Jules Maaten of the Netherlands has served in the European Parliament since 1999. The following is excerpted from February 12, 2003, European Parliament debate on Progress in Implementing the Area of Freedom, Security, and Justice in 2002.Nineteen ninety-nine already seems ages ago. That was the year that the agreements we know well — indeed, with which we are all too familiar — were reached in Tampere on the new European asylum and migration policy to be set up, and a deadline was even attached to that, five years. Now we are in 2003, and not much has happened. I think…
