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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the Council has been too quick off the mark. What the Council finds important, we deem inadequate and one-sided. What I do welcome in the Council’s report is the commitment towards the Member States. That is a step forward, but the reception and protection of victims is still being afforded too little importance. More guarantees must be offered in this connection. That is why, and certainly for humanitarian reasons, we should not so much aim for interim, but permanent, residence permits.
Where are the bottlenecks? Mafia groups have capitalised on the globalisation of the economy faster than anyone else. A second bottleneck is the rift between rich and poor regions; and then there is poverty. It is thus not only beneficial to launch dissuasion campaigns against the trafficking in human beings in all those countries of origin, poverty must also be addressed. We should also develop immigration policy and open up the borders more, even if this is at the expense of the countries involved. Despite this, most European countries still prefer a repressive approach in practice, which first and foremost targets the victims themselves. The heavyweights involved in the trafficking in human beings, the entrepreneurs of the trafficking in human beings, and those with vested interests usually remain out of harm’s way, and the current policy on fighting the traffickers has virtually no humanitarian dimension to speak of. And where is development cooperation in this respect? The approach must be international, but the Mafias have international, well-oiled networks at their disposal, with fiscal and financial experts and telecommunication and computer experts of the highest calibre. Those fighting these practices still need to content themselves with proportionately few people, little expertise and few tools, loopholes in legislation and still a distressing lack of actual international cooperation, despite Europol etc. A structural approach is thus necessary, both in terms of criminal law and international migration policy. I should also like to say: do not overlook corruption."@en1
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