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"Mr President, I wish to thank the representatives of the Council and, above all, of the Commission, and we look forward to tomorrow’s work with Mr Fratini.
What we are now experiencing was accurately described and predicted more than a full 35 years ago by the think-tank known as the Club of Rome and by its leader, Mr Aurelio Peccei, who said that the South would undoubtedly make its way north.
There can be no effective and lasting policy on a purely national basis. The odd attempt at prevention or occasional measures to promote security and respect for human life are not enough. The moment has therefore come for making policy on migratory flows an urgent European priority. We therefore propose setting up a conference involving European, African and Mediterranean countries. This could be held in association with, or even under the joint authority of, the UN and the European Union. The conference should develop an emergency Marshall-style plan at UN and EU levels and in relation to the following two areas.
With famine, health issues and the protection of human life in mind, we need firstly to provide ourselves with the resources for dealing humanely with the refugees who at present die in the desert or are shot when they try to cross areas barred to them or who, in other cases, drown in the Atlantic or Mediterranean, for such things do happen. Then, and as our main task, we need urgently to mobilise the international financial institutions to create economic activity in the countries of the South and, in particular, to offer stability there to those young people who wish to work in their own countries and to remain there. Basic efforts are required to promote policies on education and economic stabilisation in order to prevent the populations concerned from migrating. Subsidies, which in any case give rise to corruption, must be halted. The two international bodies – the United Nations and Europe – and, of course, a third body – the Organisation for African Unity – need to tackle this problem without delay."@en1
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