Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2011-03-23-Speech-3-191-000"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2011-03-23"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Establishment of a joint EU resettlement programme (debate)2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20110323.19.3-191-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2011-03-23-Speech-3-192-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Carlos Coelho2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; DEVE (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 substitute; DROI (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 member; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with Japan (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Partido Social Democrata (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; LIBE (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 member; EPP (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I was very pleased to hear the President-in-Office of the Council stressing the importance of refugees and the resettlement programme. The figures from the United Nations High Commission on Refugees are clear: we are talking about millions of refugees and about more than 200 000 people in need of resettlement programmes every year. There is, therefore, a humanitarian emergency in the world around us: now it is not just in Afghanistan, Somalia and the Congo, but we are also facing it in Egypt, in Libya and in many other countries. However, as well as the humanitarian emergency there is, as Mr Papanikolaou reminded us, also the fact that we have unspent budgetary resources because these programmes have not been approved. That is what is happening, Mrs Enikő. I was also pleased to hear you saying that this process would not be paralysed because of legal issues. However, the truth is that this process is paralysed, to a great extent for legal reasons. We are in a co-decision process and we have not seen the Council disagree with Parliament’s solutions. Mr Tavares prepared an excellent report and we see no proposals from the Council to contradict the model resettlement programme that has been designed. What we are seeing is the Council limited by legal issues, and that cannot happen. The question that Mr Tavares was asking at the start of this debate, of knowing what is the priority and if the issue of refugee resettlement is or is not important to the Presidency and the Council, is very important. We have the feeling that this, in fact, is not important. Members will be holding a Council tomorrow, after which – we already know this Council’s proposed conclusions – the draft on the issue of migratory flows is being put off until the July Council. The recommendation that we would like to be taken from here, Mrs Enikő, is that the European Parliament is not asking the Council to delay: the European Parliament is asking the Council to decide."@en1
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