Verbatim report of proceedings

Tuesday, 10 March 2020 - Brussels

Migration situation at the Greek-Turkish border and the EU's common response to it (debate)

  Jaak Madison (ID), blue-card answer. – Thank you, Ms McGuinness. I know you very well, and I know that you’re a very nice person. My solution is also that we have to protect refugees in their own home countries and neighbourhoods. I was in Jordan in 2015, where about 80 000 refugees were stuck in the refugee camp and they got help from the EU.

They didn’t want to come to the EU. They wanted to stay in a neighbouring country and go back home as soon as possible. That’s the first solution; we have to help neighbouring countries in the Middle East, like Jordan. The second is a solution like Australia ....

(The President cut off the speaker)