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"Madam President, on 21 September last, a farmer of the town of De Panne, which is Belgium’s westernmost point near the French border, came across 45 refugees on his land one evening, 15 of whom were children. These people were received and cared for by that town, but quite remarkably, they claimed to have been dropped across the border by the French police. The police had picked them up in Calais, taken them from Calais to the Belgian border and had no qualms about subsequently dropping them off in Belgium. A very strange business, all the more so because, according to other witness statements, it appears that this is not the first time this has happened.
Fortunately, this incident has been settled at the highest level between the French and Belgian authorities, and it appears that they found a way of discussing it. However, to my great surprise, I was informed by a Belgian that it is not just the French who get up to these tricks, but also the Dutch and Germans. When I asked him if the Belgians do the same thing, he confirmed this and said, now and again. This leads me to conclude that everyone still has the standard European reflex, namely to pass on their problems to their neighbours.
In my opinion, it is high time that we, as European legislator and as European Parliament, at least pressed for a European reflex. Just as Europe did too little during the oil crisis, it is also making its presence felt insufficiently with regard to this disturbing problem."@en1
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