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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the Mediterranean is the world’s most unequal border. In economic terms and in terms of income, the tremendous difference between the two sides produces a flow of people that cannot be controlled solely by police forces.
In the summer of 2006 I had the opportunity to congratulate Commissioner Frattini because he and some Spanish fishermen saved Europe’s honour by rescuing a group of people adrift at sea, and we then witnessed a disgraceful trade-off process as to what we ought to do with them. One year on, Commissioner, are we in a better position to deal with this problem?
We are moving forward very slowly indeed, and our rate of progress is incompatible with the gravity of the problem that lies before us. It is a problem that we will be unable to solve without further development in the countries of origin. We must get that into our heads. We will not be able to solve the problem without development in the countries of origin because, although we need a large number of immigrants, we cannot cope with the entire demographic excess of sub-Saharan Africa.
Moreover, what is happening here is the terrible combination of hunger on one side and TV satellite dishes on the other. The empty bowl in the kitchen and the satellite dish laden with expectations constitute the best possible breeding ground for illegal immigration, which we can only control by contributing to the development of the countries of origin and preventing the real ‘call effect’: illegal employment."@en1
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