Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-06-06-Speech-3-133"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2007-06-06"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Management of Europe's maritime borders - European Solidarity and protection of migrants' rights (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"es"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20070606.15.3-133"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2007-06-06-Speech-3-1342
lpv:speaker	lp:Ignasi Guardans Cambó2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Delegation for relations with the United States (2007-03-14--2009-04-22)3 member; Delegation for relations with the countries of south-east Europe (2007-03-14--2009-04-22)3 unknown; Convergència Democràtica Catalunya (2004-07-20--2009-04-22)3 vice-chair; INTA (2007-02-01--2009-04-22)3 substitute; LIBE (2007-01-31--2009-04-22)3 member_of_the_bureau; ALDE (2004-07-20--2009-04-22)3 substitute; CULT (2007-01-31--2009-04-22)3
lpv:translated text	"I would like to begin by congratulating the Commissioner on taking on her responsibility in relation to this issue. I hope that they are not just words, though it is of course good to begin with words. It is absolutely intolerable that we should leave a group of human beings to die while the governments and bureaucracies of various Members States argue about who is obliged to rescue these shipwrecked people who are dying from starvation, from drowning, from exposure to the sun ... Malta has its obligations and its attitude has been intolerable and deserves to be condemned. The Union, however, must of course be in a position to support Malta today, Spain, in the Canary Islands, yesterday, and wherever else tomorrow, when it comes to saving the lives of people who wish to enter the European Union. The summer is beginning and, with it, we are once again seeing the human flow of people who wish to live out their dreams in London or Hamburg, but who are destined to die on the beaches of the south. That is the message that we must send. We are currently in the midst of a debate on the future of Europe, on what we want and what we can do together. Well, it is in fields such as this that the European Union can find its legitimacy. I am not just talking about credibility. I am talking about legitimacy. The European Union can also lose its legitimacy in this area, however. What kind of Union do we have amongst us that can organise and regulate all sorts of things — some of which many of our citizens consider to be absurd, and even idiotic — but which is incapable of organising things in such a way that people who are trying to reach our borders do not die, that people trying to reach our castles are not doomed to die at the castle gates? Mr Vice-President, you have an historic challenge, a political and historic challenge. You have the responsibility to promote solidarity, but if solidarity does not emerge, you have the responsibility to impose it. You have the power to do so. If solidarity does not emerge, you will have to impose it. Impose it politically, shaming those States that do not take on their responsibilities, and impose it by force by means of legislative proposals so that everybody assumes their responsibility towards the present and the past, with so many deaths attributable to governments that do not play their part."@en1

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