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"We rejected the Italian Republic’s initiative on ‘European charters’, which are a violation of the European Convention on Human Rights and referred to discreetly as ‘joint flights’. We are outraged by the determination that the European Union in general and some of its Member States, such as France, Germany and Italy, are showing in seeking an arrangement for rationalising the removal of third-country nationals by organising joint flights at any price. We find the idea of providing EUR 30 million to pay for this type of operation, as the Commission and Council propose, scandalous. This fortress Europe policy is nothing but shameful.
We would prefer to see the same determination, the same effort, devoted to fighting unemployment, inequality and poverty in the EU. That does not seem to be the priority of the Fifteen, however. They prefer to pander to the electorate’s populist and xenophobic tendencies by describing immigrants as our societies’ number one problem.
In this context, however, together with human rights and anti-racist organisations, we continue to reaffirm the need for a different immigration policy in Europe, a policy based on open borders, respect for the right of asylum and equal rights."@en1
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