Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-07-06-Speech-4-023"

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dcterms:Date	"2006-07-06"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Development and migration (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20060706.3.4-023"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2006-07-06-Speech-4-0242
lpv:speaker	lp:Koenraad Dillen2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; DROI (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 substitute; LIBE (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 member; NA (2004-07-20--2007-01-14)3 member; DEVE (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 unknown; Vlaams Belang (2004-11-15--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Ladies and gentlemen, even while this report was being considered in the Committee on Development Cooperation, I realised what the main thing was about it that I found disappointing. I find the same thing here in this debate in this Chamber. Nowhere, it appears, is anyone stopping to consider the inevitable social consequences of migration for the countries of the EU, which are already wrestling with the problems presented by the formation of ghettos, criminality, rootlessness and Islamism. After what happened in the French suburbs last autumn, I would have expected some reflection on this from a French rapporteur in particular. We must not, in this debate, point an accusing finger at the people who flee their countries of origin in search of a better life. They are doing only what anyone would do, but Michel Rocard, incidentally the former chairman of this House’s Committee on Development Cooperation, and a member of the same party as the rapporteur, got the measure of the situation when he, as the Socialist Prime Minister of France, said that ‘France cannot take upon herself all the miseries of the world’ – and nor, for that matter, can Europe do so. It is, moreover, primarily the weakest people in the countries of origin in Africa, the ones who do not have the means or the clout to get themselves out, who are the victims of the immigration flows, the victims of open borders, for they are left behind, poorer than ever. Such ideas as the mobility of brainpower and circular migration may be appealing, but they are unrealistic and do nothing to change the situation. More immigration into our own countries, then, means more misery in the developing world, contrary to what the report suggests. What Europe needs is for immigration to be stopped outright; what the developing countries need is effective aid on the ground."@en1

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