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"Madam President, I think it is clear that issues of solidarity and delivery of international responsibilities are as important in Calais as anywhere else in the European Union and beyond. But I think it is also clear, when we look at Calais, that deterrence policies over the years clearly have not worked and that the so-called Jungle is a reflection of a long—term problem with no coherent ongoing governmental response. I have been going to Calais since the years of Sangatte, I have been there with the Road Haulage Association and we know the problems well.
It is a long-standing history of French failure to deliver effectively on its obligations, aided and abetted by a UK Government that we know drags its heels to deliver safety and security, even to children who are clearly entitled to be in the UK. Every time the camp at Calais is destroyed, children go missing and smuggling gangs responsible for much of the violence there gain more customers because people simply don’t trust the state.
My French colleagues and I have again written to the relevant authorities to ask them to just do their jobs properly. It should not be left to NGOs, such as Citizens UK, to identify children who have a right to join their families in the UK.
Building walls displaces problems. It does not solve them. That money would be much better spent on the French and British Governments properly managing the asylum system in the region, which will provide safety, information and choices for people in need, be better for the local economy and certainly provide greater security for drivers."@en1
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