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"Mr President, the European Union’s credibility in the eyes of millions of citizens is at stake. If the European Union cannot protect its own borders in a joint fashion, then what is the Union for? Europe has a shared external border, and it is everybody’s responsibility.
African immigrants do not enter via the North Pole, Minister, nor via the shores of the Baltic, but they are entering Europe, and Europe belongs to all of us. Everybody has their own particular geography, though, and they have been given it by God, as some people might say.
It is not charity that certain Member States are asking for but, rather, consistency with the European project that we all talk about so much and which is so easy to preach when we are talking about the single market in financial services or the common market in goods. When it comes to borders, however, it appears that each Member State has their own, and they do not feel the need to share responsibility for other borders. We are not talking about charity, but about coherence, about responsibility for the European project. The European Union’s credibility is at stake."@en1
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