Seconde contradiction : le Conseil de Tampere affiche la volonté platonique de gérer les flux migratoires et de combattre l’immigration clandestine à la source, mais en même temps, il proclame fortement, à plusieurs reprises, qu’il faut donner aux immigrés légaux, je cite : "un ensemble de droits uniformes aussi proches que possible de ceux des citoyens de l’Union", et qu’il faut mettre en place prioritairement une politique d’intégration leur permettant de rester.
The second contradiction: the Tampere Council propounds its purely formal intention to control the flows of migrants and to combat illegal immigration at source, but, at the same time, staunchly proclaims, on several occasions, that legal immigrants must be given, I quote, “a set of uniform rights which are as near as possible to those enjoyed by EU citizens”, and that as a priority a policy of integration must be set up to enable them to stay.