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"Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, there can be no doubt that just today that this Parliament has approved an amending budget providing more specific resources for funds to assist refugees, and this is a measure of the interest that Parliament has in an issue of such complexity and delicacy. The wind of freedom of the Arab Spring is still blowing. More than 20 years after the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the two Germanies were reconciled and reunited, now the Mediterranean is also no longer a frontier with respect to what unites the people of North Africa, in particular, with the people of South Africa. We need these readmission agreements and, Commissioner, above all conclusion of the bilateral agreements with Tunisia, with Libya and with Egypt which we have discussed and on which you have worked so many times with great commitment, although once or twice we were probably unlucky. The free elections that will take place in October are a strong sign of this energetic movement towards the achievement of fundamental rights. A serious, concrete and credible measure in the context of good neighbourly relations with Tunisia needs to be put in place. At the same time, and I am referring to what the Commissioner said, on the subject of solidarity, only eight states have signalled their willingness to accept resettlement. This is too few, just as the willingness of the same states to help with the serious problems that Lampedusa and Pantelleria continue to suffer is also inadequate in my opinion. I have been to Pantelleria and Lampedusa. The migrants who were not refugees were migrants who destroyed the two buildings in which they were housed because they were supposed to be being repatriated. So, we must distinguish economic migrants from refugees and safeguard fundamental rights, bearing in mind that in the Mediterranean the European Union must take on a leading role and that this has not hitherto been the case."@en1
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