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"Madam President, Commissioner, we support your efforts, of that you may rest assured. Every time we have discussed such issues under similar circumstances, I think that Parliament has always been clearly and robustly supportive of you, of the Commission and of the initiatives being taken.
However, I would remind you, as my colleagues mentioned, that a short while ago – three or four plenaries ago, if I remember correctly – we debated the question of the resettlement of refugees and pointed out that, even though we did not have the emergency situation in ‘our neighbourhood’ when we considered this issue and negotiated it the first time, we felt that this mechanism was now necessary. Today, several months after that debate, here we are again, and you personally are telling us – and we all agree – that the refugee resettlement programme has not been completed and its application has not yet started and that we are confined to efforts being made by individual Member States. Therefore, apart from the fact that we all agree that we support your efforts, I think that we also agree that Europe today is being called upon to manage caravans of refugees at what is obviously a bad time, a bad ‘
for it, because we do not have all the tools at our disposal that are needed in order to manage this crisis adequately.
My colleagues referred to Shousha and I too am in receipt of the information from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, according to which approximately four thousand people are crowded there, with about another 1 600 in host countries. At the same time, the numbers for resettlement – as you too have said – are very low in comparison with current needs and, according to the High Commissioner, only 14% of cases have progressed in terms of resettlement needs.
Commissioner, without doubt, the communications and press releases from the Commission on economic aid to Tunisia are necessary and important. However, at this critical time, Europe must take proactive decisions, with equal burden-sharing and solidarity, if we want, above all, to be at one with our conscience and to be proud of the Europe of values that we all espouse."@en1
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