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"The Maltese Islands are the Southern frontier of the EU. Situated in the middle of the Mediterranean, they are receiving a disproportionate number of irregular immigrants. The majority file for asylum status.
Frontex – which was hailed by Government representatives as a solution to curtailing the number of irregular immigrants – has been a complete failure.
We have been requesting the sharing of the burden, with little or no response. Now that this legislature has entered its final year, we are proposing mechanisms for burden-sharing. Finally we are acknowledging the need ‘to help alleviate the disproportionate load which could fall on certain Member States, in particular the border Member states’.
The fact that we have acknowledged the need ‘for the provision of mechanisms other than financial to correct the adverse effects of the implementation of this system for the smaller Member States at the Union's external borders’ is most welcome, as it refers to Malta in everything but name.
The EU has not lived up to its spirit of solidarity where this issue is concerned. It is about time that we cut the rhetoric and get down to the substance.
The EU must realise that its smallest state cannot continue to absorb the vast number of immigrants seeking refuge and asylum."@en1
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