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"Mr President, allow me to begin by congratulating Mrs Avilés Perea on her excellent report. My congratulations are sincere because she has been able to deal in a full and balanced way with the consequences which globalisation have had on the world of immigration, specifically for women and in particular for women from the southern region of the Mediterranean.
I believe that the rapporteur has sought to produce a balanced text, which is necessary and possible, which reflects the differing views and sensibilities, while avoiding extremist and dogmatic positions, and a text which reflects the diverse opinions and the seriousness of the situation. Of course, globalisation is not a panacea for all evils. Globalisation does not necessarily mean well-being and wealth and, in many cases, it is or could be a source of inequality and greater poverty.
The Treaty of Amsterdam established for the first time the Union’s competence in the field of immigration and asylum, and the Tampere European Council agreed that the issues of asylum and immigration, which are different but closely related, make a European Union common policy necessary. This means that we need to evaluate present and future migratory flows in all their categories: humanitarian reasons, family reunification and economic reasons, as the rapporteur already mentioned, and demographic changes, the situation of the labour market and of the immigrants’ countries of origin.
In political terms, I believe that we must choose between continuing to hold the view that the Union can continue to resist migratory pressures or accepting that immigration is going to continue and must be adequately regulated, working together to maximise the positive effects of immigration, both for the Union and for the immigrants themselves and for their countries of origin.
The situation is clearly more critical in the case of female migrants. They are more vulnerable to abusive practices. We must, therefore, accept any initiative which may make us reflect on this issue. Such matters include the demographic structure of each country of the Union as a whole, demographic development, the origin of existing immigrants in the European Union, jobs which they carry out in the place of others – in other words, domestic work done by immigrants allows women from the receiving country to work outside the home – marginalisation, prostitution and living and working conditions.
All of this must be considered within a balanced framework of rights and obligations for all nationals of third countries resident in the Union. I therefore believe – and I appeal to the generosity required by the seriousness and the exacting nature of the issue – that it would be good to remove concepts such as ‘Euro-Mediterranean citizenship’, which I believe create confusion and in my view are exclusive. The Mediterranean, the birthplace of civilisations and culture, must be a factor for integration and not for exclusion.
I therefore believe that we must support action to integrate women and to provide them with dignity, and we must not forget that in many countries they are still not even considered to be citizens. A broad consensus will no doubt give our demands and our actions more force."@en1
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