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"Mr President, the Spanish Presidency has rightly named the fight against terrorism as its first priority. The Spanish Presidency has also rightly indicated the importance of money laundering to terrorism. Because the true driving force of terrorism, at least in Europe, is not ideology, but money. We are concerned about whether it will be possible for the Council to overcome the obstacle standing in the way of fighting terrorism resulting from certain governments blocking the Community proposals on the fight against money laundering.
Secondly, Mr President, the Spanish Presidency insists on the problem of immigration and the need to control it. The Presidency’s programme also talks about the outermost regions. I wanted to link these two problems by pointing out that the outermost regions, although they are far from the Community’s continental territory, are in fact part of our territory and that it is currently necessary to control illegal immigration into these regions. I do not believe that the procedure adopted by certain local authorities is the appropriate one: i.e. providing free tickets so that illegal immigrants in the Canaries can be transported to the mainland of the continent. But if we do not adopt measures on a Community level, it is possible that other local authorities will feel obliged to do the same.
Finally, Mr President, over recent years it seems that both the Council and the Commission have forgotten where Latin America is. It is as if the navigation charts have disappeared. The Spanish Presidency points to the importance of holding the Ibero-American Summit and, also in the President’s speech, he rightly stresses the importance of helping certain countries such as Argentina and Colombia. I believe it is very important that the Spanish Presidency takes the helm once again, places Latin America on the continent’s navigation charts and, like in the Fifteenth Century, supports, in this new era, the link between the European Union and Latin America."@en1
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