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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I was pleased to read recently about the Socialist Group in the European Parliament calling for this morning’s debate not to become an electioneering exercise. What is more, on listening to you this morning I find that your positions are becoming dangerously close to those of my own Group.
I agree with Mrs Gruber that Member States can no longer manage immigration by acting independently in their own corner of Europe. I also agree with Mr Moreno that we wish to help countries with a high level of emigration develop so that their citizens are more inclined to stay at home. I am also in agreement with Mr Fava when he says that Europe should take a firm stance towards those employers who unscrupulously exploit their workers.
There are those who associate immigration with violence and who claim that immigrants are the cause of all the woes affecting their country. These people do not share the fundamental values of the European Union.
Fortunately, there are also those who fight humanely against illegal immigration, which only creates modern-day slaves, and who support legal immigration, which provides economic, cultural and intellectual opportunities for us all.
We in this House know one thing: this problem cannot be solved simply by acting at a national level. The only way ahead lies in a concerted European policy. We did not set up Frontex to fish drowned people out of the seas off southern Europe or to gather up children in the eastern territories who have died from hunger and thirst. Frontex is not an impassable frontier, it is a means of preventing the arrival of excessive numbers of immigrants for whom we do not have sufficient welfare and material resources.
Controlling our borders is not a technical problem and it is not a military problem: it is a political matter. Like you, I am seeking the most realistic and the most humane solution. As we all know, that is to be found here around the European table, to be agreed between ourselves and those who run the countries that are the main sources of immigration. It is up to us to initiate a new, more effective form of co-development that will provide for an intelligent regulation of migratory flows and the peaceful arrival of immigrants into the European Union.
Fellow Members, migrants often do not have any choice over what happens to them, but we do have a choice: we can choose to receive them with concern, dignity and understanding. It is up to us to succeed where others have for so long failed."@en1
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