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"Mr President, I should like to start by congratulating you on the victory of Spain's national team in the World Basketball Championship. Of course, you must not think that you beat us Greeks; we let you win the match because we have connections with your royal family. That is why we gave the game away.
You spoke earlier of illegal immigration in the Canary Islands. We have the same problem daily in the Aegean. Borders have not been defined due to relations with Turkey and so, every day, we have several such illegal visits to Greece.
We are a country of 10 million inhabitants, 2.5 million of whom are illegal immigrants: one in four inhabitants in Greece is a foreigner. It is an unbelievable figure. We are a country with deficits – the only country in Europe with deficits. We have the worst unemployment and we have 2.5 million people below the poverty line.
Please relieve us of this burden and we do not mean with policing measures; we must give the countries which immigrants leave the best economic support we can, so that they stay at home."@en1
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