EPP Foreign Affairs Ministers call for a more holistic approach to migration policy and for moving CSDP forward
21. January 2016
- Taking into account the worrying humanitarian situation as regards migration in the Mediterranean and the needs of EU Member States for proper mechanisms and resources, the EU must properly address the challenge of the migration influx from the Middle East and Northern Africa (MENA)
- The European Union needs to reinforce a more holistic approach to the external dimension of the migration policy, as well as to make a more clear distinction in the core elements of its internal dimension. As the EU we must be able to distinguish between the free movement of EU citizens, asylum seekers from EU candidate countries and immigrants as well as asylum seekers coming from the MENA region.
- We call upon the European Commission to set forth a fair procedure of dealing with the problem in line with a geographical balance. This strategy will be essential in order to enhance and improve EU’s communication in regards to its migration policy in the Member States.
- We welcome the idea of a “Budapest Conference”, similar to the concept of the “Valetta Conference” to be held in autumn 2015, in view of gathering the main Eastern European, Balkan and MENA countries which have been most affected by the migration crisis in order to come to joint solutions. This conference should aim at bringing more awareness of the considerable flux of immigrants coming through the Balkan route to the rest of Europe.
- We stress the urgent need to elaborate on further options within the Lisbon Treaty framework in order to move the CSDP forward and ask the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy to present a proposal in this regard.
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Alexandra Henman
Deputy Spokesperson
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National and Regional Press Director
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The EPP Manifesto, also adopted at the 2012 EPP Congress in Bucharest, outlines the basic principles of the Party summary.
The EPP Manifesto, also adopted at the 2012 EPP Congress in Bucharest, outlines the basic principles of the Party summarising who we are, what our values are, what challenges are we facing and what vision we have for the future. The Manifesto was developed in parallel to the EPP Platform document within the EPP Working Group 1 for “European Policy”.
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The EPP Platform is the core programme of our party outlining our main values, explaining the challenges our society is facing and presenting our vision for the future of European Union.
The EPP Platform is the core programme of our party outlining our main values, explaining the challenges our society is facing and presenting our vision for the future of European Union.
The Party Platform was developed in EPP Working Group 1 for “European Policy” chaired by EPP President Wilfried MARTENS ?and EPP Vice President Peter HINTZE. The Working Group consists of delegates of EPP member parties who prepared and worked?on this document for more than two years and received input?from the drafting committee as well as senior and young experts. The document was adopted at the 2012 EPP Congress in Bucharest, thus replacing the Basic Programme of Athens from 1992.
