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Verbatim report of proceedings
Monday, 4 April 2011 - Strasbourg OJ edition

EU response to the migration flows in North Africa and the Southern Mediterranean, in particular, in Lampedusa - Migration flows arising from instability: scope and role of EU foreign policy (debate)
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  Claude Moraes (S&D). – Madam President, the Council has refused to create an asylum policy and real formal burden-sharing since 1999. Speaking on behalf of David Sassoli and my Italian colleagues, what we see in Italy today is an emergency which has no real solution in law. A solution should have been found by now. Reception procedures, qualifications – the core of the asylum package which we are discussing today – should have been implemented long ago. We would then have had a concept of resettlement and a concept of burden-sharing, but we do not.

For that reason, I say on behalf of my group that we must assist in this emergency. We call on the Council in particular – but also on you, Commissioner – to show that political leadership, and to apply Council Directive 2001/55/EC. That will create a situation of resettlement which may at least alleviate some of the burden.

As well as doing that – as some have said – we cannot ignore our duties in relation to asylum and to international law. Those duties will apply to so many people who are vulnerable and suffering today. The reasons for the push factors of asylum are deep and profound – they are poverty and instability. However, we have a situation right now affecting the Southern countries and we need to implement Council Directive 2001/55/EC.

 
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