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"Thank you, Madam President. In the city of Naples, the social reality that was temporarily masked by symptomatic management has burst to the surface with astonishing force. In the Europe of the 27, the problem can no longer be dealt with at Member State level; it is crying out for much more complex Community action.
The problem is not an issue of relations between one nation and another, or between old and new Member States, or even between the Roma and non-Roma population. The crisis has made visible the hopeless situation in which a million European Union citizens are living, teetering on the edge of society in the suburbs of towns stricken with unemployment, in emergency accommodation, in insanitary conditions, struggling unnoticed for survival with no proper assistance or training services.
The Socialist Group in the European Parliament has not been silent. They have taken action, and not just talked about it, and they have also stated that, in a united Europe, blaming the Roma population for the current public security situation is unacceptable.
How much we understand on the basis of events like those in Naples and how we can best use the Community resources available for remedying the problems is up to us. As the person reporting to the European Parliament on Roma issues, I offer the Commissioner our cooperation and ask my fellow Members of this House to do the same."@en1
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