Brussels, 24/04/2007 (Agence Europe) - At a meeting of the party bureau in Grenada on 20 April, the French Chairman of the EPP-ED, Joseph Daul, revealed that at the end of the year, the EPP-ED group would be proposing concrete measures in the area of EU immigration policy. In a press release Daul affirmed that this packet of measures is expected to contain a “Marshall plan” for the countries of origin of illegal immigrants coming to Europe, as well as a plan “to fight against the Mafias” responsible for human trafficking. Addressing an appeal to third countries to work in collaboration with the EU and help put a stop to illegal immigration, Daul affirmed: “We have the imperative need to offer solutions for the problem of immigration because otherwise it will promote the politics of extremists in Europe”. Discussions on this subject will continue at the group during a meeting next July in Malta. (bc)