Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-06-06-Speech-3-130"

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dcterms:Date	"2007-06-06"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Management of Europe's maritime borders - European Solidarity and protection of migrants' rights (debate)2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20070606.15.3-130"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2007-06-06-Speech-3-1312
lpv:speaker	lp:Giusto Catania2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Conference of Delegation Chairs (2007-03-27--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Partito della Rifondazione Comunista - Sinistra Europea (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; CULT (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 vice-chair; LIBE (2007-02-01--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union (including Libya) (2007-03-14--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (2007-05-23--2009-07-13)3 member; EUL/NGL (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 chair; Delegation to the EU-Chile Joint Parliamentary Committee (2007-03-27--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	". Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Mr Frattini was right to talk about solidarity, but for us the first solidarity that we should show is to the families of the people drowned in the Mediterranean, solidarity to explain to ourselves as well that we should stop calling them illegal immigrants but should probably refer to them as shipwrecked people. That is in fact what they are: people – men and women – who drowned in the Mediterranean while trying to reach Europe and who were not even given a chance of being saved or rescued at sea, but were actually left for three days clinging to a tuna net. It has to be said quite plainly: someone has to take serious responsibility for that! Mr Frattini said so clearly in an interview to an Italian newspaper, when he mentioned the serious responsibility of the Maltese Government. That needs to be repeated here in this Chamber, as well as the fact that they did not even have the decency to bury those people; even the idea of taking them in after death was rejected. Therefore we ought seriously to consider the fact that, although Frontex may have a specific task to perform, its priority must be to rescue people at sea. That is something we said a short while ago when we were debating the Rapid Border Intervention Teams. This, sadly, was by no means the first tragedy; over the last ten years more than 9 000 human beings have drowned while trying to reach Europe, but this was the worst tragedy in the last ten years. We should also carefully consider the need to expand the legal channels for people to enter legally and also the possibility of reviewing the Dublin II regulation in order to prevent what has been happening. Look, in my view something serious is taking place: we are losing sight of the guiding principles of Western civilisation, which is based on hospitality and the right to burial. As the great tragic playwrights of ancient Greece taught us, we ought to start afresh from that point, not least so that we can develop a new idea of reception and hospitality for Europe."@en1

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