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"Mr President, I would like to say something about two things which, though different, are nonetheless connected. On the one hand, all this is another demonstration of how we need, as the European Union develops, to move closer towards common rules on asylum, Schengen and other aspects of policy on legal and internal affairs. I see this as being a matter of urgent necessity if we are to be able to take action more quickly to deal with these things.
This, though, given the way things stand, would be no more than tinkering with symptoms, for, as various Members have described today, the forces at work are quite different. If people are in such dire straits as to think it worth risking death, then our best efforts will avail nothing unless the causes are removed. We have to bring about a situation in which these people again have something to look forward to.
What we are dealing with is a continent in its death-throes, for we can see how Aids is cutting a swathe through some of its countries, how climate change has meant that people no longer have any means of feeding themselves, and that we have not always given the right sort of aid, or in sufficient quantities. There is also the issue of trading conditions, which are not always fair. If people there are to be given hope, we need to adopt an approach that is different – not only in going deeper but also in having a broader scope.
It must also be clear, though, that blame is not to be attached to us alone, and that we are doing the things that good people should do. It is every bit as important to recognise that these countries are ruled over by elites and dictatorships that threaten their own people with armed force, oppressing them and making any kind of development impossible. We must overcome the dictatorship in these countries that mete out such inhumane treatment to their own people.
All these things fit together if we want to deal with these things successfully, and also gain the approval of our own people. What is clear from what is going on now is that we can also present this as a matter of our own self-interest, which is best served if these people, in their own homelands, are given a chance and a prospect of a better life. We have to make it clear that the two are interlinked; it is a vital lesson to be learned if there is to be a change of approach.
We have known all this ever since the 1970s, ever since the reports by Edward Heath, Willy Brandt and others, in which all of this is to be found. None of these things are new; all we need is the strength to put them into practice."@en1
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