Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-05-22-Speech-2-263"
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"Madam President, in early February, the German newspaper, the
featured an extremely gloomy report on the EU’s police mission in the Palestinian regions. Its outgoing leader, a Briton by the name of MacGyver, did not mince his words when he said ‘We are working here in a quagmire of deceit and corruption’.
Months later, an escalation of rivalry between Fatah and Hamas only made matters worse. The necessary question arises as to how meaningful the Council and Commission deem the continuation of the EU mission to set up a civil police force on the West Bank and in Gaza. You will hardly want to shoulder some of the responsibility for the far-reaching lawlessness in that area.
Meanwhile, the news agency Reuters announced yesterday that the European Union will be extending its border mission in Rafah by a year under the revealing, unchanged motto ‘The Palestinians are responsible for the border’. Their police are sure to put something in the way of the smugglers of arms, drugs, money and people, according to Palestinian insiders, such as the one who spoke to me. I would ask the Council and Commission the same question: are you prepared to face up to your responsibility in this, and do so in a spirit of humility?"@en1
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