President. – On behalf of the European Parliament, I would like to welcome the Transport Committee of the Swedish Parliament to the public gallery. The Committee is led by its chairperson, Mrs Monica Öhman.

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I would like to say that we are very pleased to welcome the Transport Committee members, who represent the five political parties of the Swedish Parliament, and who are here to meet their counterparts in the Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism.

Ladies and gentlemen, we hope that you have a pleasant and productive visit.

  Nogueira Román (Verts/ALE). – (ES) Madam President, I must insist on an issue which I have raised several times during these points of order. Since the last part session in this Parliament, thirty people from Africa have died on Spanish beaches trying to find work in Europe.

During this same period, another 2 800 have been detained and I believe it is now time, Madam President, for this Parliament to deal with this very fundamental problem which should make us all ashamed and which requires this Parliament’s action.