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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I appreciate that President-in-Office Balkenende should have begun with the dramatic events in the Netherlands, which have disturbed that tolerant country. The Netherlands of integration, even if that word was completely absent from today’s discourse by the President-in-Office.
I did not appreciate at all, however, the fact that today no mention was made of the grave events in Iraq. Yesterday, devastating images of American marines killing injured Iraqis were bounced into our homes, as if all this barbarity and horror were routine business not even worthy of mention.
I believe that Europe cannot stand idly by at these events, nor can it confine itself to voting appropriations for reconstruction – as the Council did recently – nor limit itself to meeting Mr Allawi or placing confidence in the forthcoming elections as the event that will resolve the conflict.
As regards the Hague Programme, I do not consider there to be continuity with Tampere; on the contrary, I note a qualitative leap based on a misapprehension. The fact is, the issues of organised crime, terrorism, trafficking in human beings and immigration cannot all be thrown into one big pot, as if they all constituted a single problem. What this is in reality is a scheme for limiting Europe’s sphere of action to that of security, leaving out justice and freedom. I believe that Islamic terrorism should be combated by dialogue between cultures and religions. That is not what was done by your deputy, Mr Balkenende, who the day after the murder of Mr Van Gogh declared war on Islam, or what your country does in financing faith schools. I believe instead that we must build a school where Catholics, Muslims, Protestants and atheists can all live together.
In conclusion, trafficking in human beings and immigration are not the same thing. We need to punish the criminals, but above all we must satisfy people’s needs: the needs of those who flee from wars and from hunger, who come onto our territory, seeking shelter in our sympathetic and integrated Europe."@en1
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