Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-10-12-Speech-3-053"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2005-10-12"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Current problems regarding immigration2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20051012.12.3-053"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2005-10-12-Speech-3-0542
lpv:speaker	lp:Frank Vanhecke2
lpv:spokenAs	member; NA (2004-07-20--2007-01-14)3 member; Delegation for relations with Switzerland, Iceland and Norway and to the European Economic Area (EEA) Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Vlaams Belang (2004-11-15--2009-07-13)3 substitute; DEVE (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; LIBE (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, it is, of course, true that Spain and the other European countries are largely responsible for the fact that we are still nowhere in the fight against illegal immigration. That is because the soft approach to illegals and, obviously, the regulations that result from it, have an enormous effect in attracting hundreds of thousands and millions of other fortune-hunters. It is laughable, actually, that Louis Michel, like a number of other Commission spokespersons, thinks and says that a policy of limited legal immigration could solve the problems. It is not because we receive a few dozen, a few hundred or even a few thousand doctors or engineers that the immigration of unskilled people from Developing World countries will drop off. Quite the contrary, in fact, we must move in the direction of transparent policy, with illegality not rewarded but resulting immediately in forced return to the countries of origin. Our refugee policy should be based on three pillars: firstly, the reception and processing of asylum applications not by us, but only in the countries or the regions of origin; secondly, the compulsory readmission of bogus asylum seekers to the countries of origin, if necessary on the pain of loss of development aid, and thirdly, the complete overhaul of development cooperation, because development cooperation should no longer help potentates to stack up billions of dollars in their Swiss bank accounts. We are prepared to show solidarity, but we are no longer prepared to let our continent be overrun by fortune-hunters from across the globe, because our primary duty is to defend our own citizens."@en1

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