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dcterms:Date	"2009-05-06"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:European Refugee Fund for the period 2008-2013 (amendment of Decision No 573/2007/EC) - Minimum standards for the reception of asylum seekers (recast) - Application for international protection lodged in one of the Member States by third-country nationals or stateless persons (recast) - Establishment of 'Eurodac' for the comparison of fingerprints (recast) - Establishment of a European Asylum Support Office (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20090506.38.3-332"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2009-05-06-Speech-3-3332
lpv:speaker	lp:Mario Borghezio2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia (2007-05-02--2009-07-13)3 member; LIBE (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Lega Nord per l'indipendenza della Padania (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; PETI (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 member; UEN (2006-12-13--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Palestinian Legislative Council (2007-03-15--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, a short time ago I heard some very serious and even slanderous statements made by a Maltese fellow Member against the Italian Government and Minister Maroni in particular. The game being played in Malta is actually not very clear, and I will explain myself straight away. I would not like to call it a dirty game simply because of the respect that should be shown to a European Union Member State, but our fellow Member should have honestly stated that Malta has always sought to maintain its excessive expanse of territorial waters, which stretch as far as the island of Lampedusa. The Italian Government has asked Malta on many occasions to reduce its huge expanse of territorial waters. Malta prefers to keep it as it is so that it can keep its request for contributions from the European Union high as well. The truth should therefore be told in its entirety: the truth about Italy’s ability and willingness to welcome, protect and safeguard the rights of migrants who take part in and are victims of this trafficking is so glaringly obvious and well documented that it is not necessary for me to uphold it. Coming to the crux of this report, I would emphasise that it is our duty – instead of carrying on these disputes that resemble the cockfights in Manzoni’s famous novel – it is the duty of our Member States not to give in to the siren calls of do-goodery, peppered perhaps with hypocrisy and very specific political and economic interests, but to force ourselves very strictly to apply the sacrosanct principle of asylum, and in so doing not to give up any ground to those who wish to use it for improper purposes that are not in accordance with the noble principles that inspire it, and to prevent its exploitation, which favours precisely those criminal organisations that organise and exploit the trade in illegal immigrants, to which we refer in the context of the current situation. I repeat: it is our duty not to pretend, not to pick arguments that are open to exploitation but to find a common approach, going so far as to fight and adopt effective measures to ensure that the right to asylum is upheld and does not become the right of exploiters and organised crime syndicates to use noble and good laws to achieve their loathsome goal of exploiting people from developing countries."@en1
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