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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2007-12-11"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Draft general budget 2008 as modified by the Council (all sections) (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"mt"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20071211.35.2-243"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2007-12-11-Speech-2-2442
lpv:speaker	lp:Simon Busuttil2
lpv:spokenAs	member; BUDG (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 member_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (2004-08-31--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 vice-chair; Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union (including Libya) (2007-03-14--2009-07-13)3 member; PETI (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the countries of south-east Europe (2007-03-15--2009-07-13)3 substitute; LIBE (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Partit Nazzjonalista (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Thank you, Mr President. One of the points on which Parliament and the Council are agreed is to substantially increase the Frontex agency’s budget – in fact this has been doubled. I would like to state that between this budget’s first reading and its second reading, at which it will be approved this week, Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs had an intensive session with the Head of the Frontex agency, in which we spoke and were given a detailed presentation about the agency’s work programme for the coming year. This presentation, Mr President, convinced us that we are doing the right thing in increasing this agency’s budget and that with more means at its disposal throughout the coming year, the agency will be more effective than it has been so far. The Head of the agency also supplied us with the details of several new missions to be carried out in the course of next year on the external borders of the Union – land-, air- as well as sea-based missions. As regards sea-based missions, it gives us great satisfaction to see that Frontex’s activity will increase substantially on maritime borders, especially in the centre of the Mediterranean, but also in the Eastern Mediterranean, where we have recently seen problems increase substantially. Meanwhile, missions will also continue near the Canary Islands. Mr President, I am in no doubt that the citizens of the countries affected will welcome Frontex’s more effective presence to help them meet the influx of migrants, which, as we all know, is a main preoccupation for citizens of these countries. They will therefore appreciate the decisions we have taken as regards budget. Moreover, I have no doubt that with this budget we are going to send a clear message to the organised crime network that is benefiting from the trafficking of migrants, a message that their activity will not be tolerated. Thank you."@en1

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