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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I should like to make a few remarks about the Lahti European summit.
Firstly, at a time when our continent is subjected to an unprecedented wave of illegal immigration, the Heads of State or Government have not seen fit to devote more than half an hour to this problem. Nothing – absolutely nothing – is to be expected of the European Union in this area, and it is a matter of urgency to acknowledge formally that no immigration policy can be anything but national and no cooperation on the subject anything but intergovernmental.
Secondly, Mr Putin is quite entitled to retain a degree of sovereignty over his country’s energy resources and to refuse to sell them cut-price to hungry oil multinationals in the name of an economic liberalism to which he does not subscribe. As for the sabre-rattling about human rights, respect for which must form the basis for the EU’s relations with the rest of the world, this would be more credible if it were not so selective and if it were also directed at countries such as China.
Finally, we are still waiting for the Council to condemn the Turkish authorities, who have tried to force the removal of one of our Cypriot fellow Members from a delegation of MEPs. It is less and less acceptable to negotiate the accession of a country that refuses to recognise the full range of Member States."@en1
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