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substitute; Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3,3
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"Mr President, Commissioner Malmström, ladies and gentlemen, the first meeting of the EU-Tunisia task force, which is charged with support for the transition to democracy and economic recovery, took place today.
This year, Europe’s financial commitment was doubled, and obviously I welcome this, because Tunisia, with which we have a privileged partnership, has also agreed to accept sub-Saharan refugees fleeing from the war in Libya. The European Union, which has often reaffirmed its commitment to the refugees, must without fail support and aid Tunisia to manage these migration flows while fully respecting human rights.
Norway, although not part of the European Union, has agreed to accommodate more than 300 refugees, while EU Member States have agreed to accommodate fewer than 400 refugees in total. I consider this to be a deplorable and shameful attitude, a real insult to the principle of solidarity that should underpin the European Union’s Mediterranean policy.
I should remind you, what is more, that these refugees are currently confined in camps in intolerable conditions. This morning in this very Chamber the European Parliament approved by a large majority an allocation of EUR 43.9 million for managing the migrant and refugee flows arising from repression by authoritarian regimes and movements linked to the Arab Spring. These additional funds will be used to assist the Member States most affected by these flows and to reinforce marine patrols by Frontex.
Let us reaffirm our assent to a Europe committed as much to the promotion of human rights as to the management of migration flows, and let us reject the idea of a fortress Europe that is xenophobic and closed. Today, the European Union is paying the price of its previous support for the dictatorial regimes of North Africa. Our former friends Gaddafi and Ben Ali have fallen or are falling and their people are fleeing repression.
I should like to know what stage the joint EU resettlement programme, currently blocked in the Council, has reached. I am asking you, Commissioner, whom I know to be extremely sensitive and pro-active, how, in the current situation, can the European Union make a concrete commitment with regard to this humanitarian emergency?
In conclusion, I am taking the opportunity of asking the Commission whether it is aware of what is happening in Palermo, where the Italian authorities are forcing 250 migrants to remain aboard a ship, without any provision authorising their detention, and denying them their right to freedom and to communicate with the outside world. Thanks to numerous reports presented to the Public Prosecutor’s Office at Palermo by many organisations in Palermo and Sicily fighting for human rights, the Palermo Public Prosecutor has just opened an investigation.
This event follows some extremely serious facts that took place at Lampedusa last week, where the situation is out of control and where the safety of both the local population and that of the migrants themselves is at risk."@en1
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