Brussels, 06/03/2007 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday, MEPs Martine Roure (PES, France) and Giusto Catania (GUE/NGL, Italy) called on the EU to “put an end to attempts to externalise [the management of migratory flows] at European external borders” as they take the view that this is “violation of EU fundamental rights”. Both MEPs, who were speaking at the presentation of the book entitled “Paroles d'Exils”, therefore called on the Commission and Council to put concrete proposals forward in favour of opening legal immigration channels. “Pressure exerted by the European executive to get transit countries to hold migrants leads straight to their repression and to violation of their rights”, they stressed. “Paroles d'Exils” groups nearly 200 first-hand accounts and tales of the lives of Sub-Saharan, Moroccan and Algerian migrants between November 2005 and December 2006. This public presentation is an initiative of the association “SOS Migrants”, the European United Left Group and the Party of European Socialists. (bc)