Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2011-04-04-Speech-1-195-000"

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dcterms:Date	"2011-04-04"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:EU response to the migration flows in North Africa and the Southern Mediterranean, in particular, in Lampedusa - Migration flows arising from instability: scope and role of EU foreign policy (debate)2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20110404.19.1-195-000"2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Alfredo Pallone2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; ECON (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with Canada (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; Special Committee on the Financial, Economic and Social Crisis (2009-10-08--2011-07-31)3 member; EPP (2009-11-25--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 substitute; LIBE (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 unknown; Il Popolo della Libertà (2009-07-14--2013-12-16)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, your words are in line with what we wanted to hear. I would not, however, like to ideologise this debate which is sometimes ideologised in a bipartisan manner. I believe that it is a very serious matter to speak of a humanitarian emergency. The question I ask myself, and that I also address to my fellow MEPs, is as follows: ‘Can we speak of humanitarian emergency and stop at that point, or should we ask two types of questions, one about the emergency and thus about the immediate issues, and another about strategy?’ The problem of Africa and the Middle East is a problem that must, by definition, lie outside Europe, and the question that arises is whether there can be development without democracy. Let us remember that the revolt in these countries of the Middle East and the Mediterranean has not been about ideology but about bread, a revolt for democracy in order to survive. We are bound to ask ourselves certain questions about this. It is all very well, Commissioner, to address the problem of Directive 2001/55/EC and everything that Frontex is doing, but Europe must ask itself what it wants to do about the Mediterranean and the whole of Africa. Many of my fellow Members have spoken of Libya and other countries. This makes me think of Darfur, of certain situations where genocide goes on every day in Africa. The only discordant note I would add is this: it is not true that Europe is responsible for looting. Of course, some European countries are partly responsible, but in Africa, a number of capitalist systems interact that are not based on the social economy of labour, like our own, but are based on the state economy, state capitalism. The leading example is China, which buys sovereign debts and exploits entire populations. We cannot go and oust presidents who are driven by crime. Even the UN cannot do this. I think that we should leave aside the ideological issues and think about the immediate problem, and that means welcoming these people, all of them together. Tomorrow, though, we cannot avoid discussing Europe’s strategy towards the whole of Africa."@en1
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