Brussels, 21/06/2002 (Agence Europe) - The EPP Summit was held in Madrid where the Spanish Prime Minister José Maria Aznar offered a dinner, on Thursday evening, to several eminent persons and Heads of Government of his political family including Jean-Pierre Raffarin (from France), Silvio Berlusconi (Italy), Wolfgang Schüssel (Austria), Jean-Claude Juncker (Luxembourg) and Jean-Peter Balkenende, who is expected to lead the next Dutch government. The meeting allowed participants to evoke the main themes on the agenda of the European Council and confirmed, according to an EPP release, the agreement of six Heads of Government with the proposals of Mr Aznar on combating illegal immigration. Just before the meeting, the Spanish Prime Minister told the press that it was out of the question for Europe to close its doors. "Europe will not become a fortress. But we do not want it to become an opening through which anything and anyone can slip without obstacle", he said. The president of the EPP party, Wilfried Martens, stressed that a policy on this cannot succeed without giving people in the poor countries hope and prospects. There must be a framework for the integration of legal immigrants that Europe needs, said the former Belgian Prime Minister, who also stressed that enlargement should contribute to encouraging the populations of the future new Member States to exploit the possibilities that it will bring in their own countries. Mr Martens said he was convinced that the right, which already holds a majority at the European Parliament, will have a majority within the European Council from September on. The leaders of the EPP also spoke of the state of progress of work by the European Convention with Commissioners Loyola de Palacio and Michel Barnier, as well as the president of the EPP group within the Convention, German national Elmar Brok.