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"The Italian Government’s initiative seeks to organise European charter flights for the ‘mass’ expulsion of third-country nationals. The European Council approved it even before receiving Parliament’s opinion. The Commission has announced EUR 30 million: this is an unacceptable way to proceed. It is the very idea of this initiative that must be rejected, however, as hundreds of organisations and thousands of European citizens have rightly demanded.
The discriminatory, humiliating and degrading nature of this method of removal is a betrayal of the European Convention on Human Rights and the Charter of Fundamental Rights. More widely, an excessively security-conscious and repressive immigration policy is a threat to migrants, to international relations and to Europe itself. As Kofi Annan recently reminded us, we cannot close our doors and eyes to the world around us. On the contrary, Europe must be open to those who are prepared to risk everything to flee war, poverty and sometimes death. Europe’s need for an ambitious, humane and supportive common policy means instead that migrants should be considered agents of development. For that to be the case, we must abandon ‘fortress Europe’ as a matter of urgency and make sufficient money available for genuine cooperation and mutually advantageous development."@en1
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