Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-02-15-Speech-4-087"
| Predicate | Value (sorted: default) |
|---|---|
| rdf:type | |
| dcterms:Date | |
| dcterms:Is Part Of | |
| dcterms:Language | |
| lpv:document identification number |
"en.20010215.4.4-087"2
|
| lpv:hasSubsequent | |
| lpv:speaker | |
| lpv:translated text |
"We wish to denounce the French Presidency initiative which is focussed in its entirety on the criminalisation of what it terms ‘illegal immigration’. For the perpetrators of this infamy, it is not just a matter of terminology, as the police force of the Socialist Prime Minister, Mr Jospin, has just forcibly expelled illegal immigrants that had take refuge in the Parisian church of Saint Bernard in precisely the same way that his right-wing predecessor, Juppé, had people deported from the same place four years previously.
Regarding the causes driving hundreds of thousands of poor people out of their country of origin in order to attempt to survive elsewhere, the European Union has nothing but fine words. In order to put an end to poverty in these countries, the European institutions would have to take on the plunderers and exploiters of these countries. Since they are unable to cure the illness, they opt to penalise the victims.
While the French Presidency announces a Europe-wide witch-hunt against these “victims of oppression”, it points the finger at the squalid modern day slave traders, but only does so in order to cast a veil over the parties for whom the smugglers are recruiting, i.e. big business, construction giants and any number of smaller scale employers who thereby benefit from an immigrant workforce provided, at the discretion of employers and the police, by laws which do not grant them even minimal protection.
This report confines itself to smoothing out some of what it considers to be the more repulsive aspects of the French initiatives. We have voted against the report as a whole, while voting in favour of the amendments which might temper or eliminate the despicably repressive nature of the French proposals."@en1
|
Named graphs describing this resource:
The resource appears as object in 2 triples