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"Mr President, the conclusions of the Thessaloniki Summit relating to immigration represent an encouraging milestone insofar as major decisions are made with regard to the management of external borders and the policy on the return of illegal migrants, not least in terms of the European Union’s financial undertaking. However, on this extremely serious issue, the European institutions continue to suffer, so to speak, from an endemic reluctance across the board to address, head-on, the challenge represented by the activity of the criminal Mafia organisations which organise the despicable trafficking of human beings, which frequently causes tragedies such as those portrayed on television screens in the houses of all European citizens throughout the world, where a picture is painted which certainly discredits the European institutions as well.
There are still a number of questions on this matter which were not clearly raised at the Thessaloniki Summit. Europe is not addressing the relationship between illegal immigration and terrorism, and yet Al Qaeda members are identified daily in the ghettos of illegal immigration. Just recently, a criminal network has been identified in my country whose members have even penetrated the reception centres. What if, instead of merely aiding the criminal trafficking of illegal immigrants, these had been members of Islamic terrorist organisations? Furthermore, why are adequate health protection measures not laid down, not least in the interests of the immigrants, given the extremely unstable health situations endemic in the countries and regions of origin of illegal immigrants? Consider the situation in Algeria, with the plague crisis.
Moreover, has Europe considered, or does it intend to consider, the need to protect, not least from the point of view of protecting the Union and its natural resources, areas such as the islands and coastal regions of southern Italy, where illegal immigrants leave the ships of traffickers? The island of Lampedusa, with its extraordinarily beautiful countryside – one of the last strips of European land before Africa – and the Costa Domiziana
are parts of our European heritage which are unique in their beautiful scenery. For how much longer must they continue to be transformed into reception camps for floods of illegal immigrants? In this sense, the UK proposal to place reception centres outside Europe’s borders is to be welcomed."@en1
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