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"Mr President, I have to give the House some good news, and I am sure you will welcome it as such.
Yesterday’s newspapers, published today in press reviews across Italy, said: “Long-life gene discovered: life could be increased by a third”, or by 35% to be precise. Therefore, I think that, if at the moment I am hoping to reach 90, I will actually reach 130.
You will say, what does this have to do with counterfeit travel documents? I will tell you straight away. You know that I am the representative of the Pensioners’ Party, elected to Parliament from that list. The pensioners are always asking me what they are cooking up in the pot in Brussels. They are aware of the fact that in Brussels – but above all in the fifteen Member States of the Union – they take these pensioners and they throw as many of them as possible into boiling water. This is what has been happening for some time, and, with this new piece of news, I think that the pot will be heated even more so that even more pensioners can be boiled, if possible all together.
In addition to the serious harm that they know they have to suffer, there is also the fact that, unfortunately, being elderly, they more than other people are more likely to be the targets of the criminal acts which, throughout the European Community, are sadly being perpetrated by many people who illegally enter the Union and then commit them once they are in.
I would therefore like to say to my friends and fellow Members, Mr Gebhardt and Mr Schulz, that, firstly, in the amendments tabled by Mr Newton Dunn, the need to combat crime and the trade in human beings is not avoided but confirmed. I would also like to say that if these criminals do not enter illegally, then they will not commit crimes either; if, on the other hand, they are decent people and have their travel documents in order, then we are quite happy for them to enter. It is precisely for this reason that we are saying that what this measure is doing is positive – even if it reminds us of Arsène Lupin, the gentleman thief – but it would be much better to have a European electronic identity card which is the same in all the States. Above all, it would be much better for supervision at European borders to be increased, on the borders of Spain, Greece and Italy as well as Eastern Europe… It is pointless to invest money, effort and hard work for other reasons. We must prevent large numbers of people illegally entering the European Union who then go on to commit crimes.
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