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It is undeniable that the EU is advancing towards a common migration procedure. However the question is to know when and how such a system will be set up. Although the Treaty of Amsterdam, the Vienna Action Plan and the Tampere Conclusions fix precise deadlines for the adoption of the majority of the measures, this process has encountered many delays and other difficulties. One can only hope that the new attitude towards the immigration of third country nationals combined with the new competencies of the Community in the field of immigration will reflect the "good intentions" expressed in several recent documents and action plans resulting in policies that would be at the same time concrete, effective and humane.
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This paper is the written version of a presentation given by the author at the conference "State of Play on European Immigration and Asylum Policy: Patching up Tampere?" in Trier, 25–26th of April 2002.
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Apap, J. Shaping Europe’s migration policy. ERA Forum 3, 151–157 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12027-002-0008-4
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