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"Mr President, I would like to start by questioning the very title of this debate. The EU is calling the crisis we have in Europe at the moment a refugee crisis, basically to pull on heartstrings and to suit its own political ends. Let me make it clear that the crisis we have in Europe at the moment is not a refugee crisis, it is an economic migrant crisis.
That is not just my appraisal. It is also that of Robert Fico, the Prime Minister of Slovakia, who has said that 95% of the people who are coming to our continent are not refugees: they are economic migrants. Indeed Eurostat, the EU’s own statistical collecting body, has reported that 85% of the people coming are not from war-torn Syria, but from Pakistan, Albania, Nigeria and the Gambia. So let us, at least, not insult everyone’s intelligence, and let us call this crisis what it is, however politically incorrect you might find that, Mr Timmermans. It is an economic migrant crisis, not a refugee crisis.
Mr Timmermans, it is a case of people moving from poor countries to rich countries and in the meantime breaking international law – and you would think we would do something about that, would you not? But, amazingly, we are not doing something about it. Actually we are just encouraging it.
Then, of course, there is the security aspect of this total farce. ISIS has already told us that it is going to flood our continent with their Islamist lunatics, so you would think we would be doing something to prevent that. But no, we are doing quite the opposite: we are putting the lives of our own citizens at risk – the lives of people like those here in the gallery. We are putting them at risk by not stopping the boats. The German authorities last week reported that one in three so-called ‘Syrians’ are arriving with fake passports. They are on sale on the Turkish black market for EUR 750. We do not know who these people are!
One of the founding principles of the European Union, Mr Timmermans, is freedom of movement of people. What we are probably allowing now is freedom of movement of jihad. I fear that in the future, in the very near future, we will all have blood on our hands as a result."@en1
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