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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, first of all, I should like to thank the Commissioner for her efforts and for the efforts she will continue to make in dealing with this humanitarian emergency. However, Commissioner, you know as well as I do that the real emergency is not the humanitarian one – which is only an after-effect – but the fact that, during this historic uprising across the whole of the Maghreb, Europe has appeared inadequate, which is to say, it has been unable to redevelop a strategy for the Mediterranean, as it has tried to several times and always failed. The Lisbon Process has failed and the Union for the Mediterranean has failed miserably.
We do not have a proper view of the real problems at issue here. We need to confront them together, but today the Council is not here. We asked the Council to look at the issue of having a European strategy to deal not so much with the problem of immigration and illegal immigration, but rather the question of democracy and freedom across the whole Mediterranean area.
When the Soviet Bloc collapsed, presenting a united front, we all gave practical answers and easily dealt with the problem of the thousands of Poles who arrived on our streets, because we looked at the problem of integrating the whole of the East into Europe. Regarding the Mediterranean, today we have nothing to say. Instead, we must equip ourselves with a strategy, without which we will not be able to provide any answers. We shall appreciate your good intentions and stop there."@en1
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