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"Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, we have spoken about challenge. While it is true that Greece is facing an enormous challenge, we need, above all, to respond to a challenge facing the European Union: its image in the world, and how the citizens see it. One would have thought that the end of the 20th century, culminating in the fall of the Berlin wall, would lead us to believe that we would never again see the construction of other walls anywhere in Europe.
Yet this is not at all the case. There is an enormous project, devised by Greece, to try to resolve to its huge problems caused by the arrival – as our Greek colleague said – of more than 300 people a day at its borders through a transit country, Turkey, and these are citizens who do not come from Turkey but from many other countries around the world. One would have thought that such a thing would never be seen again. What is more, this phenomenon is accompanied by an utterly disgraceful humanitarian situation, which violates the human rights we are constantly developing, protecting, defending and safeguarding as the most precious gift that the European Union has given to its citizens.
The solutions to the problems are, needless to say, difficult, and the messages are complex. Without getting into the technical side of things, it is of course quite clear that solidarity – as Cecilia Malmström has just explained, through the idea of shared responsibility, through technical mechanisms, the funding that must be used, the earmarking of EU funds – should make it possible to provide effective aid and to address the situation in which these people find themselves with dignity and in a manner that is consistent with human rights.
The second message, which has often been heard in recent weeks in Europe, is to up the stakes in the construction of texts and a rule of law system conveying the solidarity of the Member States towards Greece, which is coming under pressure along its borders. To ‘up the stakes’ means to construct a veritable arsenal of texts applicable by all and not to miss the point either, like when in my country, France, we talk about re-erecting internal borders when what we should be doing is protecting external borders – in a spirit of humanism, it should be remembered.
Finally, Madam President, the third reply, or the third message underlying our proposals, is to have the possibility and the political will to achieve a balance between the north and the south and to use development aid and partnerships with southern countries so that migrants have no desire to come to an El Dorado that does not exist."@en1
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