Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-09-27-Speech-2-023"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2005-09-27"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Procedures in Member States for granting and withdrawing refugee status2
dcterms:Language	"el"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20050927.4.2-023"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2005-09-27-Speech-2-0242
lpv:speaker	lp:Stavros Lambrinidis2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation for relations with the United States (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 vice-chair; LIBE (2004-07-22--2007-01-14)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the Palestinian Legislative Council (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 unknown; Panellinio Socialistiko Kinima (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; PES (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; AFCO (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I wish to express my congratulations to Mr Wolfgang Kreissl-Dörfler on his report. Why does the Council insist on there being super safe countries when we ourselves recognise that some of them do not comply with basic principles of law and that this would also result in the repatriation of refugees? Why does the Council insist that each Member State should be allowed to have its own list of safe countries and why does it persist in refusing a common list, with the result that each country includes its friends and ‘customers’, even if other Member States do not trust them? Why does the Council insist on ignoring the Convention on the Rights of the Child and persist in discriminating against 17-year-olds? Is it perhaps because the rate of refugees is increasing or perhaps because we have a deluge on the European borders? No, it is not, because refugee applications have fallen recently. Unfortunately, as the rapporteur said, the problem is the fear which exists in certain countries from terrorist attacks and the fear created in other countries by unemployment or the violation of social protection networks. Fear seeks scapegoats and the easy scapegoats are the persecuted of this world. Of course, Europe is not only a geographical and economic continent; it is also a humanitarian continent. We have the same obligation to protect our geographical borders as we do to protect our humanitarian borders. We have brought our light to the planet. The international conventions we talk about here bear the stamp of European humanitarianism and we cannot, on the basis of fear, insecurity and even sometimes racism, attack and violate our own humanitarian borders. So congratulations once again to the rapporteur; I am sure that his report will fare well."@en1

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