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"The Italian Government’s appeal to the European Union is one of the prerogatives of membership. As many fellow Members have pointed out, the principles of solidarity and the fair sharing of responsibilities, as laid down in the Treaties, must be applied in practice. The difficult situation that Italy is currently facing comes within Europe’s jurisdiction, as Mrs Malmström suggested. The European institutions’ slowness to react is not in step with the extremely rapid course of events in the countries of North Africa.
Italy, and particularly the south of the country, is the first border point of Europe in the Mediterranean and it finds itself dealing with numbers of arrivals that can be imagined but not planned for. What we are experiencing shows how serious it is that we have abandoned the Barcelona Process. The European Union needs to rethink its strategy for the Mediterranean and to make that one of its main priorities again. The short-term response of financial aid and extraordinary intervention measures will help, but it will not be enough. The democratic transition processes spreading through the countries on the opposite shores of the Mediterranean need to be matched with medium- and long-term initiatives to deal with social and economic issues."@en1
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