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"Madam President, as my colleague Afzal Khan said and the previous speaker just said, Jordan and Lebanon’s handling of the refugee crisis should put us in Europe to shame. Our inability to cope with one million refugees really should make us worry and be humbled compared to what the Lebanese and the Jordanians have been able to do.
I do not know Lebanon very well, but I know Jordan quite well. Jordan has, over the years, taken in Palestinian refugees and refugees from the Iraqi war. They have not, by and large, put these people in camps, but have welcomed them and integrated them into their society and made them part of the Jordanian economy. The Syrian crisis, however, has put an almost unmanageable strain on that country. I applaud the Commission’s response to the crisis in both these countries. I hope that, when more resources become available, we will be able to put more money into the area, but we also need to look at our trade policy and other policies to see how we can help Jordan. They are not blessed with the natural resources of their neighbours, so we should be looking at how we can, for example, change our rules of origin to help them trade more with us to create jobs inside the country and tackle the very severe unemployment they face."@en1
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