It was not until 2006 that - thanks in particular to the constant pressure exerted by Parliament - the topic of legal immigration came up once again for discussion (on the occasion in particular of the November 2006 informal Lahti summit and the Brussels European Council which came after it, in December 2006). For the first time since the Tampere summit, EU cooperation with third countries of origin and transit with a view to the opening up of legal channels reappeared on the agenda.

I also agree with other possibilities expressed through amendments still on the table in plenary since the opening up would be a bad step for employment, growth and the maintenance of the universal service unless the public service and its functioning are safeguarded.

The President of the Committee of the Regions, Mr Albert Bore, will chair the opening session of a round table alongside Mr Barnier and other prominent figures such as the Mayor of Leipzig, Mr Wolfgang Tiefensee, and the German Minister for the Economy and Labour, Mr Wolfgang Clement, together with his Polish government counterpart, Mr Jerzy Hausner, and the President of the German Bundesrat, Mr Wolfgang Böhmer.

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As far as actual treaty table talks, one of the items to be initially discussed during the readiness stage is the procedural document referred to as the openness protocol (1545 ) These openness protocols have been agreed upon by the three parties at the table, the federal and provincial governments and the First Nations.

The Commission met its representatives in June 1985 and April 1986. - 2 - - public procurement: here, the representatives of the Round Table said they had lived with the segmentation of national markets for a long time, but that they were now sure that opening up the European market would be in their interest, since the advantages of scale and competitiveness would outweigh the risk of competition; - transport; - company law: in particular the European company statute without which, said the representatives of the Round Table, trans-European firms came up against unnecessary and expensive problems; - the liberalization of capital move ...[+++]ments: indispensable, according to the representatives of the Round Table; - the approximation of indirect taxation".