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"Madam President, President Václav Havel’s speech to our House highlighted one of the fundamental principles of the European Union: solidarity among human beings.
We are celebrating the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, that wall of shame. Following 9 November 1989, we were told that humanity would finally be set free. Democracy and human rights were supposed to extend to the entire planet, knocking down walls, removing barriers between peoples.
However, for one fallen wall, how many others have been erected on our continent?
The walls erected in Ceuta and Melilla, for example, to ward off the arrival of men and women fleeing war, poverty and global warming, the walls stretching from the detention centres, the gates of our cities as far as the Libyan desert, via Lampedusa, where even children are locked up in the name of the Return Directive.
Let us knock down the walls of fortress Europe, let us build bridges, not walls …"@en1
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