Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2015-04-29-Speech-3-149-000"
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"en.20150429.3.3-149-000"2
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"More than 1 750 people have perished since the start of the year alone and this crisis is going to get worse unless we change our policies.
People in Scotland, Europe and Members of this chamber, by large, expressed a clear demand for immediate action to prevent further loss of life in the Mediterranean. Europe’s states cannot ignore the tragedy unfolding on our doorstep. Politicians and policy-makers must stop weighing up the political and economic costs and worry about the impact on their own immigration and asylum statistics. Rescuing people at sea is our obligation, driven by human decency and each EU member state should share in that effort.
We all know that the European response to this crisis has been woefully inadequate and it shames us all. The numbers of migrants are significant, but we could cope. Instead, the European states have left it as a local problem for Southern Europe. This approach has resulted in unprecedented tragedy. Lessons must be learnt! We must support our colleagues in Italy and Greece, Malta, Cyprus and Spain. People are dying trying to reach Europe’s shores and this is not their problem, this is our problem and we must assume responsibility."@en1
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