Brussels, 30/08/2007 (Agence Europe) - The vice president of the European Commission, Franco Frattini, (also in charge of Justice Freedom and Security (JFS), went to Paris on Thursday 30 August to meet Rachida Dati, Keeper of the Seals and the French minister of justice. Dati and the vice president are expected to discuss major themes such as European cooperation and the future French presidency of the European Union. Other discussions on the menu include the French proposal to extend the Kidnap Alert Mechanism to other member states of the Union. At the end of his meeting with the minister, Frattini said that he hoped that this mechanism would become, “a European system” and asked Ms Dati to, “present the French model in a few weeks to other countries” of the EU. According to AFP, he insisted that, “other countries need to adopt it”. The emergency plan inspired by the “Amber Alert” system set up in the US in 1996 and in Quebec in 2003 has helped find several children who have disappeared since it was officially implemented in France on 28 February 2006. More recently, on 15 August 2007, a five year old child abducted in Roubaix was found thanks to this system. Other subjects in the justice area that France wants to focus on during its turn at the rotating EU presidency (beginning in July 2008) and which Ms Dati highlighted were the “joint investigation teams”, “common training of European magistrates” and the possibility for legal decisions made in one EU state to be executed in all other member states. On the day before this meeting, the Italian Commissioner met the immigration minister Brice Hortefeux during a seminar at Saint-Priest-Bramefant (Puy-de-Dôme). The French minister used this occasion to announce that under a French presidency, the European Union would create a, “broad European pact on migration”. This pact would be one of the main dossiers the French presidency will be tackling. Franco Frattini explained that it would also be proposing “that mass regularisation inside the European Union is refused”. This pact is expected to, “establish a common strategy on asylum policy for political refugees”. Frattini said that he fully agreed with the French approach on migration policy and affirmed that a “Euro-Mediterranean strategy” needed developing so that, “the Mediterranean was not a place where people lost their lives but rather a large region of security and dialogue”. Franco Frattini also indicated that in October he would be launching a “blue card”, provided by the European Union. This would enable highly qualified workers and students to move freely between European states. (bc)