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What will, without a doubt, retain the public’s attention in relation to the Seville Summit will be the European programme on combating immigration. The Heads of State and Government, haunted by the election results in favour of the far right, have adopted a vast and repressive arsenal of security measures but have not tackled the underlying causes of immigration, nor even attempted to find other solutions apart from extradition for immigrants residing and working in Europe. It is rather paradoxical that, at the same time, in Seville, 450 illegal farm workers, most of whom are Algerian, occupied the university demanding to receive the correct paperwork for their situation. They asked the real questions, that of the debt that their country of origin has run up at the IMF, which is plunging the population into further and deeper poverty; about the mafia groups which are taking advantage of ‘Fortress Europe’; about the employers who abuse this illegal workforce, disregarding the right to work and human rights.
We urgently need a different policy to cancel third world debt, to withdraw European support for dictators, provide immigrants with the correct paperwork and to open up borders. Spain has also set little store by the Treaties by preventing, during the Summit, Portuguese citizens from crossing the border."@en1
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