Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-07-05-Speech-3-349"

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dcterms:Date	"2006-07-05"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Mutual information procedure Integration of immigrants in the European Union European Union immigration policy (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20060705.22.3-349"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2006-07-05-Speech-3-3502
lpv:speaker	lp:Sebastiano (Nello) Musumeci2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Alleanza Siciliana (2005-09-20--2007-11-26)3 member; PECH (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; UEN (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 member; REGI (2006-06-15--2007-01-14)3 substitute; AGRI (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	". Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I realise that the problem of illegal immigration in the Mediterranean, seen from here, Strasbourg or Brussels, in the heart of the European continent, may appear to many to be a marginal issue to be addressed with the cold, formal language of bureaucracy and with the complicity of Community policy, which, at times, can be cynical and hypocritical. Those, like me, however, who live day and night in Sicily, the furthest point of Europe in the Mediterranean, have no difficulty in declaring, within the plush walls of this Chamber, that a true human drama is unrolling before our eyes. Only last year, Commissioner, more than 20 000 illegal immigrants arrived on our Sicilian shores, double the number of those who landed in all the European countries bordering the Mediterranean in the past two years. Each day, hundreds of arrivals undergo the same ordeal, the same stations of the Cross: shipwrecks offshore and then bodies washed up onto the Sicilian beaches by the sea currents. It is a tragedy involving young players and victims, women and children fleeing from their countries, searching for a dream that for none of them will ever come true; first they have to go through the human smuggling racket and then a life of hardship, suffering, privation and exploitation awaits those who manage to avoid the police controls. This tragedy is taking place on European soil and what is Europe’s response? It responds late and ineffectually. Only last December, the European Council in Brussels proposed a series of generic actions to be taken in 2006 and invited the Commission to coordinate their implementation. But it is said that resources are limited and additional funds will not be available until 2007. Too little, Commissioner: we need decisive action and your statements this evening have given us the right to hope. You are known to be a person who is in favour of decisive, practical action and we invite you to give us yet another further demonstration of it."@en1

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