Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-03-29-Speech-4-307-375"
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"en.20120329.36.4-307-375"2
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"The European Union is ploughing vast sums of money into image campaigns aiming to highlight the benefits of the Union to its citizens. Any wise businessman knows that good products need no advertising. The precise nature of the EU’s error is made implicitly clear when it comes to the ‘expansion of the resettlement programme’: the discrepancy between the everyday reality for the citizens of the older EU Member States at least and the pathological mania for change among many Eurocrats. Despite the huge integration problems experienced by many immigrants from completely different cultural backgrounds, resettlement programmes are to be expanded and granted even more funding. Anyone looking to bring refugees from safe third countries into the EU is demonstrating stupidity rather than solidarity. The most effective assistance would be to support third countries that are taking in refugees in both financial and structural terms and to back projects that promote peace and democracy, as well as humanitarian causes. The crazy idea that it is possible to offer every displaced person in the world a cosy refuge in the EU is simply self-destructive. It is only possible to offer sustainable aid at local level. The idea of aiding refugees is taken to absurd levels by permanently identifying certain groups as victims of persecution and pursuing this policy of resettlement. Anyone forced to leave their homeland because of the horror of war must be able to find sanctuary in a safe country. However, this should not involve permanent resettlement with a guarantee of prosperity. That is why I am voting against this report."@en1
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