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"Mr President, cooperation between the European Union and the Maghreb countries must be based on a number of basic principles.
However, I feel that we have the duty, first and foremost, to point out the report’s serious omission to mention the religious persecution of Christians and Jews, who are not free to practise their faith publicly in these countries. There has recently been an extremely serious incident in these very countries in which a Jewish religious building was damaged, and this should have been mentioned.
Moreover, we cannot continue to maintain the populist stance that opening up our borders is a way to help these countries in future. Exactly the opposite is true: if anything, the solution is to set up effective measures in fields such as small and medium-sized enterprise and European craft trades in these countries, but such measures are not receiving support. Therefore, we oppose the indiscriminate opening up of our borders to immigration but we would like, if we may, to stress a fundamental point, namely that the Maghreb countries must undertake to take back the illegal immigrants which the Member States are labouring to repatriate."@en1
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