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"Mr President, I appreciate those parts of the report which relate to the sanctity of human life and the fact that we should look after the refugees’ readmission rights, that is, the right not be sent back into an unacceptable situation. I am nevertheless very concerned that Frontex will be part of the construction of ‘Fortress Europe’.
In my opinion, it feels like our solidarity with each other in connection with tightening up our borders is greater than our solidarity with the people who come to us. We have some kind of erroneous idea that Europe would have some disproportionately large share of the world’s refugees. This is not true at all. It is the poor countries of the world that receive by far the most refugees. We receive only a tiny proportion of these people. Moreover, when we talk about integrating readmission agreements into all agreements with other countries, I think that we are on completely the wrong track.
We should first generate development by means of fair trade agreements, and then perhaps we will get fewer refugees, too. This is a much better policy both for us and for other countries."@en1
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