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dcterms:Date	"2016-02-02"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Richard Howitt2
lpv:spoken text	"Madam President, when at the end of last year the EU pledged to provide a facility of EUR 3 billion to Turkey to help them assist with the 2.75 million refugees that they have received from Syria, it was hailed as a key tenet of the EU’s response to the refugee crisis. This facility was meant to start to provide grants and other financial support as of 1 January 2016, and it is appalling that here we are, more than a month later, and still EU Member States are fighting over how much they will contribute to the facility. My country might have been quickly prepared to pay its share, but I remain deeply disappointed that the United Kingdom has opted out from taking its share of refugees in the joint relocation scheme. Initially it was said that only EUR 0.5 billion would be provided from the EU’s own budget. The rest would be genuine new money from the EU Member States. And yet to date, that figure has risen to EUR 1 billion from the EU budget. We must make sure that it rises no more. President Juncker was right when he said that these EUR 3 billion are a question of credibility for the EU. And on a day when there are those in my own Member State, sadly, who want the European Union to fail that test of credibility, we have to make sure that it succeeds. As my political group has emphasised, whatever the crisis, our shared values must remain the same. And I call on all Members here to go back to your governments and to get them to commit the money so the facility can offer the humanitarian development support that is so desperately needed."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee (2014-10-10--2016-11-01)3 vice-chair; Delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia (2014-10-13--2016-11-01)3 substitute; EMPL (2014-07-08--2016-11-01)3 member; S&D (2014-07-01--2016-11-01)3 member; DROI (2014-07-01--2016-11-01)3 substitute; SEDE (2014-07-08--2016-11-01)3 member; AFET (2014-07-01--2016-11-01)3 unknown; Labour Party (2014-07-01--2016-11-01)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Richard Howitt (S&D )."1
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