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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I have the impression that the Heads of State or Government meeting at Hampton Court were debating in a vacuum. On the great social, economic and political issues, which have been mentioned in many of the previous speeches, the results achieved were decidedly sparse. While cities are burning across half of Europe, I feel it is terrible that they should talk in such general and imprecise terms about immigration and about the social and economic crisis, which are in fact the cause of what is happening in Paris, Strasbourg and Brussels. The challenge that the young rioters have set us is, instead, a very serious threat, and one that we should consider carefully when we talk about immigration. I certainly do not mean to put the blame on those young people, but rather on those who drew up these mistaken policies, those who still talk about immigration in such bureaucratic, general and superficial terms. We have fallen short in the immigration challenge. Our immigration policies have been a failure for Europe, and I consider it our duty to acknowledge the fact and to debate it. I believe this summit should have set an example in this respect, and the solution proposed by the Commission – allocating a fistful of cash to the Paris is not, in my view, an adequate answer. Instead we need to address the causes, change our policy and stop making insane decisions, such as making it easy for people to bring in their families or even easier to take up nationality. In essence, what we need is a sensible immigration policy."@en1
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