Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-04-03-Speech-1-084"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2006-04-03"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:The refugee camps in Malta (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"mt"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20060403.9.1-084"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2006-04-03-Speech-1-0852
lpv:speaker	lp:Simon Busuttil2
lpv:spokenAs	member_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (2004-08-31--2009-07-13)3,3 vice-chair; Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union (including Libya) (2004-09-20--2007-03-13)3,3 substitute; Temporary Committee on the alleged use of European countries by the CIA for the transport and illegal detention of prisoners (2006-01-19--2007-02-14)3,3 substitute; REGI (2004-07-22--2007-01-14)3,3 member; Delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3,3 member; CONT (2005-02-21--2007-01-14)3,3 member; BUDG (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3,3 unknown; Partit Nazzjonalista (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3,3
lpv:translated text	"What the Member who spoke before me, Mr Catania, omitted to say was that the complaint expressed most loudly and forcefully by the immigrants in the detention centres we visited related not to the conditions in the centres but to the fact that they had never intended coming to Malta. They ended up in Malta against their wishes, and they want to move on to continental Europe. This, moreover, is the tragedy. ‘Allow us to go to other countries in Europe,’ they told us one after the other. I therefore say that it is good that, through this debate and by means of this resolution, this Parliament is showing its solidarity with the immigrants as well as with the people of Malta, the Maltese authorities and the Maltese forces of order, which are doing a very difficult job. It is good that the political groups of this Parliament are showing that they are able to come together to demonstrate this solidarity and to ask both the Commission and the Council to take practical and urgent action. What is this practical and urgent action? Firstly, that Member States should accept persons in Malta requesting asylum. Secondly, that the Dublin II regulation be revised in such a way that the responsibilities of Member States are shared more fairly than they are at present when Malta, and other countries too, carry disproportionate burdens quite beyond their capabilities. Thirdly, that the financial resources of the European Union be used also in urgent cases, as the Commissioner himself rightly said they should be. There should, however, be an emergency clause in each of the four European funds that we shall have in the immigration sector as from next year, and not only in the fund for refugees. Finally, Mr President, I should like to ask the Commission what has become of the initiative, promised last year, of joint patrols in the Mediterranean. Mr President, Parliament is speaking. We shall expect the Council and the Commission to take action. Thank you."@en1

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