Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-09-23-Speech-1-064"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-09-23"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Common asylum procedure and internal security2
dcterms:Language	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20020923.5.1-064"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-09-23-Speech-1-0652
lpv:speaker	lp:Mario Borghezio2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Lega Nord per l'indipendenza della Padania (2001-06-14--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (2002-01-23--2004-03-03)3 member; Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Latvia Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3 member; NA (2001-10-03--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, my impression – derived from item 1 as a whole – is that this report makes the serious mistake of confusing the sacrosanct principle of the right of asylum, which has been invoked and established on a number of occasions as one of the fundamental rights of the European Union, with the complex issue of immigration, which is, in any case, a different subject and should be addressed quite separately. The report before us deals with the need for a legal definition of the right of asylum, but item 1 of this report contains what is, or ought to be, an extremely disturbing admission, especially for its author. I am referring to the statement that the asylum procedure is often the only way to gain access to EU territory. If this is the case, the European Parliament’s first task is to bolt the door to stop it, to prevent a major, fundamental principle of our legal tradition being distorted either by those seeking to exploit illegal immigration for unlawful ends such as organised crime, for example, whose intention is thus to use this principle as a means of obtaining entry to the European Union for those who not only are not entitled to it but who should be categorically prevented from setting foot on Union soil, or – worse still – by those seeking to enter the Union to carry out terrorist activities. The rapporteur states – and I say this with the utmost respect – in the tone of the author of ‘Alice in Wonderland’ that there is no proof that the right of asylum has been exploited to help terrorists enter the Union. I would like, if I may, to ask this question: since we know that thousands of potential terrorists and fundamentalists have penetrated the European Union – and we do not know how they got here, who they are or what nationality they are – how can we fail to draw the clearly logical conclusion that it is precisely the right of asylum that has enabled many of them to enter the Union?"@en1

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