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"Mr President, I naturally regret the procedural delays that have affected this matter. However, I should like to welcome today the adoption of this European resettlement programme. This is a joint programme which I and, indeed, we all hope will strengthen the participation of Member States in global resettlement – we should not forget that resettlement has a global dimension – and also improve the quality of the identification, reception and integration procedures which have been introduced. This programme also means that there will not be an excessive impact on the European Refugee Fund on a permanent basis, even though time is short at present. Finally, this programme will allow the European Union to be conspicuously silent no longer in the face of situations of humanitarian crisis, as was the case for the reception of refugees from Libya. However, I shall say more about this shortly.
In the light of this, it is also time to look ahead, to look to the future. The time for grand statements is past. We must waste no time in fleshing out and giving substance to this European resettlement programme and in thinking about how, in practice, we can work together with the Member States and the other main stakeholders in resettlement activities.
In this respect, I would like to welcome an existing programme: the resettlement pilot project launched on the initiative of the European Parliament, which, very innovatively and based on exchange of practices, has enabled the creation of a European resettlement network engaging cities and regions. Although national authorities are responsible for the selection of resettled refugees, regional and local authorities play a central role in reception and integration once refugees have arrived. The success of national resettlement programmes also heavily depends on the commitment, ability and partnerships of cities, municipalities and regions.
There is another issue where we must take practical action: the full and effective introduction of resettlement programmes. It should indeed be noted that, according to the information we have, there has been a significant fall in the number of effective departures of refugees accepted for this resettlement, and this trend is the result of very meticulous security checks and various problems relating to the management of resettlement procedures. It should therefore be remembered, in this context, that many States are using the saturation of their capacity to receive refugees as an excuse for abandoning resettlement policies.
It should be noted yet again that these national or transnational projects have, on the contrary, enabled reception and integration conditions to be offered to the resettled refugees and that this, to a certain extent, relieves pressure on reception structures and allows the resettled refugees to become independent quickly.
I should like to take advantage of the short time remaining to me, Mr President, to return to what Mr Díaz de Mera and Mr Busuttil were saying, although unfortunately they have left the room. I too was in Choucha, and indeed this is not a question of programmes, nor of money, but of human beings. We were in Choucha a few weeks ago and unfortunately it is highly likely that many of the people who were there then are still there, which goes to show, and Ms Malmström is aware of this, that there is room for a great deal more action on conditions so that offers are made to receive those people who are genuinely in need of it."@en1
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