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"Mr President, at this point in the debate, I believe that nothing new nor original can be added but, as a member of the Committee on Fisheries and representative of the citizens and interests of Spain and Andalusia, I would like to make two brief points.
The first is that thousands of Andalusian and Spanish families are looking to us. They hope to see evidence that, for the European Commission and especially the Council, the priority and the most urgent matter at the moment is to come to a sound agreement with Morocco. It is difficult, Commissioner, as you have just said, but it is not impossible. Employment is a priority objective of the European Union and it is not enough just to create it. We also have to prevent its destruction. Andalusia, my region, has the highest rate of unemployment in the Union and almost 50% of the boats which fish in Moroccan waters are Andalusian.
The second is that Morocco is a priority country within the framework of Euro-Mediterranean relations. Morocco and the European Union have a mutual interest and need, and intransigent positions and insults are the enemies of cooperation and understanding. Parliament can and must help with this understanding insofar as we are the legitimate representatives of the citizens of Europe, who at the moment are naturally expectant and concerned with regard to the results of the future negotiations. Neither is it good for the negotiation climate that, through an absurd desire for the limelight, spectacles should be made such as the one this morning with the resolution which various political groups have presented. It does no favours for the workers in the fishing industry and their families if certain politicians are after a photo and a headline in a newspaper or, as they say in my region, want to confuse wheat with chaff. I believe that there is no place in this debate for the Sahara question.
The Commission, the Council and Parliament must act together, in a coordinated and transparent fashion. Nothing would offer as much advantage to the other side as a lack of unity amongst ourselves and contradictory debates on a matter which is so vital to our interests and also for Morocco itself."@en1
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