Debates

Thursday, 22 November 2012 - Strasbourg

Situation of migrants in Libya

  Marie-Christine Vergiat (GUE/NGL), Blue-card answer. – (FR) Mr President, Mr Posselt is in the habit of caricaturing my positions and I have no interest in that. He knows very well what I think.

I have been a human rights activist for 30 years. I do not need any advice on that score. I condemned the situation under the Gaddafi regime just as I condemned the situation under Ben Ali, unlike many in this Chamber. Mr Posselt should stop his insults. I will support the nascent democracy in Libya and nothing he says will persuade me to budge an inch on that. I deplore the behaviour of the European Union and its Member States. I deplore readmission agreements, which impose conditions on aid for development and democracy in these countries, and I stand by my comments. I am not the least bit concerned about Mr Posselt’s insults.