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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2004-10-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Future of the area of freedom, security and justice2
dcterms:Language	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20041013.6.3-112"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2004-10-13-Speech-3-1132
lpv:speaker	lp:Mario Borghezio2
lpv:spokenAs	member_of_the_bureau; IND/DEM (2004-07-26--2006-04-26)3 substitute; ITRE (2004-07-21--2006-04-26)3 member; LIBE (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 unknown; Lega Nord per l'indipendenza della Padania (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; PETI (2004-09-14--2007-01-14)3 substitute; IMCO (2004-09-15--2006-04-26)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Romania Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-15--2006-12-31)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the words spoken a little while ago on the situation in Lampedusa would have received a cold reception last Saturday and Sunday at the international colloquium in which important representatives of African countries of ECOWAS participated, who met with us from the European Parliament to discuss these very subjects. I have the impression that the new African leadership has far clearer ideas on the subjects in question than someone who talks about such problems from a rather theoretical viewpoint. They can see with their own eyes the activities of criminal and Mafia organisations, which organise illegal immigration and carry it out, and which in fact devise ways of exploiting the methods and rules which lay down the right of asylum so that they can organise illegal immigration. The African leaders alert us to such manoeuvres and activities and say that they are ready, provided that they are supported by the European countries from the social and economic point of view, to activate control procedures and policies, including police procedures, on African territory. That is what the new African leaders are saying, and they are clearly more realistic and take a much more practical and serious view of the problem. We therefore do not agree with many aspects of this report, particularly where, as supporters of the sovereignty of individual Member States, we hear requests, even on such a sensitive issue, for a qualified majority vote and even for it to be brought in early before the Constitution enters into force. We believe, in contrast, that Lampedusa actually demonstrates the importance of the role still played by the countries of origin. Finally, to conclude, I ask myself where the European Union was and where the Commission was when we needed to set up an emergency office to protect the victims of terrorism. Where was Mr Prodi’s European Commission when European citizens were, as they are now, in the hands of terrorist criminals, at the mercy of their blackmail, their assassins’ methods, their threats and their barbarous actions? Where was the European Commission?"@en1

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