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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to offer the Commissioner my heartfelt thanks for this debate, for what she has told us, for having honoured us with her presence, and for the commitments she has made, which show the extent to which mutual understanding between Europe and Italy can help my country deal with this crisis. I would like to take up something she said: ‘There is a wind blowing over the Mediterranean’. It is true, Mr President: it is a wind of freedom and democracy that is having immediate effects which Italy finds it is having to manage. When the wind blows harder, some people put up walls and others build windmills. Let me tell you, Commissioner, that the south of Italy, Puglia, where Mr Baldassarre, Mr Mauro and I come from, has been building windmills for decades; that is to say, it has been developing forms of reception and working hard to guarantee immigrants their dignity and to provide them with a fair and decent reception. We cannot do it all alone, however. It would be wonderful, Commissioner, if these windmills that we have been building for years could also see the mark of an attentive and effective Europe that joins us in building them."@en1
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