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"Mr President, I believe that the European Parliament should urgently call on the Commission and the Council to readjust our immigration policy in the light of the humanitarian disaster that is being caused by the arrival of immigrants from Africa. The problem must not be simplified or trivialised, as it was by the German representative last week at the Council of Interior Ministers, when he had the audacity to say that Spain was not going to sink because of 20 000 or 25 000 men arriving in the Canaries. That is not the problem. The issue must not be simplified or trivialised; it has to be examined in depth. The European Union must react by readjusting this immigration policy and dealing with the underlying problem, which is the lack of active cooperation in order to create jobs and stability within Africa, on the continent of Africa. The example of Switzerland, although it is not part of the European Union, cannot help us, either. It is not a matter of jeopardising asylum applications; it is not a matter of being like Switzerland and making things much easier for financial transactions or bank deposits than for people. That is not the right path, either. I believe the right path is for the European Union to adopt a clear, humanitarian stance and to provide a humanitarian and ‘civilising’ solution to this extremely serious problem of immigration."@en1

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