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Debate: The escalating humanitarian crisis on the EU-Belarusian border, in particular in Poland
Date: WEDNESDAY, 10 NOVEMBER 2021
Speaker: Peter Kofod
Political group: ID
Country: Poland
Language: DA

Hr. formand! Jeg vil starte med at sige et meget stort tak til Polen. Polen gør det, som mange andre lande i Europa burde have gjort for mange år siden, nemlig sikret sine grænser og gjort det nødvendige, fordi vi selvfølgelig ikke kan acceptere, at millioner af mennesker potentielt vandrer ind på det europæiske kontinent og laver vores lande fundamentalt om. Så stor tak til Polen. Tak til Polen for at passe på os andre. Det, der i virkeligheden er mest uacceptabelt, det er, at i hele den her diskussion om grænser, så er noget af det, man faktisk kunne bruge EU til, det var at finansiere hegnet, fordi vi har brug for hegn. Vi har brug for mure. Vi har brug for kontrol, fordi vi selvfølgelig skal vide, hvem der kommer ind i vores lande. Jeg kan ikke forstå, at der var et medlem her, der sagde, at det skulle vi slet ikke have. Det kunne vi slet ikke diskutere. Men sige mig lige: Er der nogen af jer, der vil lade være med at låse jeres hoveddør om aftenen? Som vil lade være med at sikre jeres egen familie? Det tror jeg ikke. Hvorfor skal vores lande ikke have den samme gode beskyttelse? Hvorfor låser vi ikke døren til vores egne lande og bestemmer selv, hvem det er, vi har lyst til at lukke ind? Mure, hegn og kontrol – det er vejen frem.  Et medlem sagde, at kun et stærkt EU kan sikre vores grænser – eller noget i den retning, og jeg må bare sige, at det passer jo ikke. Vi har været medlem, mit land Danmark har været medlem, af EU i masser af år, og EU har aldrig gjort noget seriøst for at sikre vores grænser. Da vi blev en del af Schengen, da blev vi lovet, at de ydre grænser ville blive beskyttet, og det var grundlaget for, at man nedlagde vores nationale grænser. Det viste sig ikke at holde. De ydre grænser har stået pivåbne i massevis af år. Millioner af mennesker er vandret ind, og I har mere travlt med at kritisere polakker og andre, der har national grænsekontrol. Det syntes jeg langt ude.
Debate: The escalating humanitarian crisis on the EU-Belarusian border, in particular in Poland
Date: WEDNESDAY, 10 NOVEMBER 2021
Speaker: Zbigniew Kuźmiuk
Political group: ECR
Country: Belgium
Language: PL

Panie Przewodniczący! Panie Komisarzu! W tej debacie po wielokroć wybrzmiało, że to, co dzieje się na granicy białorusko-polskiej, jest elementem wojny hybrydowej prowadzonej przez reżim Łukaszenki i wspieranej także przez Putina i jego służby. Konieczne są więc rzeczywiste sankcje na jeden i drugi reżim, Panie Komisarzu. To nie może być tak, że będziemy karali tylko Białoruś. Także tę rękę, która popycha Białoruś do tego rodzaju działań, powinniśmy ukarać, a z tego, co słyszymy, wynika, że Unia Europejska jest bliska zaakceptowania certyfikacji gazociągu Nord Stream 2, który będzie przecież dostarczał kolejne miliardy euro do budżetu Rosji, która będzie wywierała presję na kraje Europy Zachodniej.  Chciałbym bardzo serdecznie podziękować wszystkim tym parlamentarzystom, którzy dziękowali tutaj mojemu krajowi, Polsce, i żołnierzom, którzy na granicy bronią Państwa bezpieczeństwa – Państwa tu siedzących i Państwa wyborców. Tak, 20 tysięcy strażników granicznych, żołnierzy, policjantów codziennie broni tej granicy przeciwko inwazji imigrantów, a nie uchodźców. My uchodźcom pomagamy: około dwóch tysięcy osób jest w ośrodkach, którym Polska pomaga.
Debate: The escalating humanitarian crisis on the EU-Belarusian border, in particular in Poland
Date: WEDNESDAY, 10 NOVEMBER 2021
Speaker: Andrius Kubilius
Political group: PPE
Country: France
Language: EN

Mr President, I am from Lithuania. For me, it is very clear: Lukashenko and Putin have a strategic goal to escalate situation on EU border. Let’s be ready. What do we need to do? The biggest mistake of Europe would be not to defend its own borders. That is why I would like to praise the daily job of our border guards. First of all, EU needs to answer to Lukashenko’s hybrid warfare with clear support measures to assist defence of EU bodies, including with the construction of physical infrastructure where it is needed. Also, EU needs to immediately stop the influx of migrants into Belarus, organised by Lukashenko, with immediate sanctions against those airlines and Belarussian airports, which are used in this smuggling crime. But we need to remember that the major reason of the threats is Lukashenko’s regime itself, and Putin’s support for his crimes. And that is why EU needs to target directly both the Lukashenko and Kremlin regimes. EU needs to show clearly that because of his crimes, Lukashenko’s secret treasures will be arrested immediately, and Lukashenko himself will be brought to the International Court of Justice in the Hague for the breach of the UN Convention against Transnational Organised Crime, Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants and Convention against Torture. Putin needs to know that the EU will introduce new sanctions against Kremlin, if Kremlin continues to support the crimes of Lukashenko. The weakness of democracies in their response to Lukashenko’s crimes in an effective way since last year inspires him to become even more aggressive and to start new international crimes. Let’s stop with that weakness on our side. With authoritarians, we need to talk the language of tribunals on confiscation of their secret treasures, and needs to be done now.
Debate: The escalating humanitarian crisis on the EU-Belarusian border, in particular in Poland
Date: WEDNESDAY, 10 NOVEMBER 2021
Speaker: Bettina Vollath
Political group: S-D
Country: Austria
Language: DE

Herr Präsident, geschätzte Kolleginnen und Kollegen! Europa hat sich selbst erpressbar gemacht, weil wir unseren eigenen moralischen Werten nicht nachkommen, sobald es darauf ankommt. Wir bieten den Angriffen des belarussischen Regimes – oder vor einigen Monaten der Türkei selbst – den notwendigen Nährboden durch die freiwillige Selbstmontage unseres europäischen Rechtsstaatsmodells. Die EU soll jetzt unmittelbar agieren, die illegalen  An der belarussischen Grenze sind schon viele Menschen gestorben. Die genaue Zahl kennt niemand, denn niemand erhält mehr für eine Kontrolle der Vorgänge Zugang zu den Grenzregionen. Wir sind auf dem besten Wege dazu, an den EU-Außengrenzen rechtsfreie Räume zuzulassen, in denen Menschenrechte nicht mehr gelten. Aber wenn wir den Kampf um die Demokratie an unseren Außengrenzen aufgeben, dann haben wir selbst einen der wichtigsten Eckpfeiler für unsere EU – die Rechtsstaatlichkeit – ausgehebelt. Ist es wirklich das, was wir wollen?
Debate: The escalating humanitarian crisis on the EU-Belarusian border, in particular in Poland
Date: WEDNESDAY, 10 NOVEMBER 2021
Speaker: Malik Azmani
Political group: Renew
Country: Netherlands
Language: EN

Mr President, the abuse of vulnerable migrants by Belarus is a most cynical and hostile act of hybrid warfare that requires the full scope of the EU’s powers to put a halt to it. The EU should warn the migrants falling into Lukashenko’s trap. We should tell Facebook and other social media platforms to stop facilitating this human smuggling and take down all the instruction videos explaining how to take the so-called Minsk route. As a bloc, we have to tell Lukashenko to back down. If he doesn’t, the EU has to consider all options available: EU-wide trade boycott, sanction Belavia, including secondary sanctions, but even exclusion from European and American payment systems. We fully support our EU Member States during this unprecedented attack. But let me also be clear: the border of Poland, the Eastern border, is also a European border; this calls for the involvement of the European Union and especially Frontex. We will not bow to this dictator, Lukashenko. We need to isolate him.
Debate: The escalating humanitarian crisis on the EU-Belarusian border, in particular in Poland
Date: WEDNESDAY, 10 NOVEMBER 2021
Speaker: Damian Boeselager
Political group: Verts/ALE
Country: Slovenia
Language: EN

Mr President, one day after the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, I hear today: walls, walls, walls, fences, barriers, border guards, police, hybrid threat and weapons. It feels like no one cares about the people, the individual stories on the ground anymore. Compassion, colleagues, is not something that we should lose once we become politicians.  Let us make sure, first and foremost, that we care for the lives of those in need, and then we can care, secondly, about everything else. But first, we need to care about the lives of the people in need. Once people are safe, we should stop being naive. The weakness that Lukashenko is trying to exploit is not compassion. The weakness he is trying to exploit is that we do not have a European asylum system. None of this would happen if we had a good and decent procedure for people to go through, across Europe, while we find ways to stop Lukashenko from engaging in human trafficking.  High Representative, I have two questions. First, will you ensure that there is access for the UNHCR to the European side of the border with Belarus? Second, do you believe that the right to seek asylum in Europe is still intact for the people at the border?
Debate: The escalating humanitarian crisis on the EU-Belarusian border, in particular in Poland
Date: WEDNESDAY, 10 NOVEMBER 2021
Speaker: Susanna Ceccardi
Political group: ID
Country: France
Language: IT

Signor Presidente, onorevoli colleghi, il 9 novembre del 1989 il muro di Berlino cadeva: fu il trionfo della libertà e la caduta definitiva di un sistema totalitario che opprimeva i popoli dell'Est. Da allora grandi passi sono stati fatti dai paesi che erano precedentemente schiacciati sotto l'influenza sovietica. Oggi, a 32 anni da quel giorno, il muro va eretto, non per isolarci ma per proteggere i popoli europei dal ricatto delle potenze straniere. Nel tentativo di emulare le provocazioni di Erdoğan, oggi il dittatore bielorusso Lukashenko sfrutta i migranti con lo scopo di ricattare l'Europa al pari del collega turco. I polacchi hanno già pagato molto: prima con i nazisti, dopo con i comunisti. La nostra ferma volontà da europei deve essere quella di difendere la Polonia come non abbiamo saputo fare in passato e, conseguentemente, proteggere la nostra terra. Nelle scorse settimane, a più riprese, qui in quest'Aula qualcuno si è intrattenuto per ore per contestare la Polonia, un pezzo della storia d'Europa. È giunta l'ora che tutti comprendano che da quel lato del nostro continente dipende la sicurezza dei nostri cittadini e che questa deve essere difesa a ogni costo.
Debate: The escalating humanitarian crisis on the EU-Belarusian border, in particular in Poland
Date: WEDNESDAY, 10 NOVEMBER 2021
Speaker: Assita Kanko
Political group: ECR
Country: France
Language: EN

Mr President, sometimes I wonder, is this a House of poetry or a House of lawmakers expressing emotions about problems but not doing much to solve them? What people want from us is to change the situation. Our work is to make good policy, support those in need and also respect our own laws. But, right now we aren’t fixing anything and that, my friends, is the problem. Because, by leaving refugees and migrants in the hands of human smugglers, we are helping to treat them like animals. This is what we will continue doing if we don’t control our migration policy. Belarus is being manipulated by Russia to provoke and blackmail an already vulnerable EU. Lukashenko and Putin are today no better than human smugglers. By accepting their aggression, we are letting our citizens down and telling them that any autocrat can penetrate our borders, hijack our planes and disrespect our States. All of us here have been elected by our European people to respect them, to defend them, to protect them – that is our responsibility as politicians. We must protect our EU borders and citizens. I am not for walls. I know what it is to run away from dictatorship. But I am for the security of our people and respect for our homes. Therefore, the EU must pay for the wall.
Debate: The escalating humanitarian crisis on the EU-Belarusian border, in particular in Poland
Date: WEDNESDAY, 10 NOVEMBER 2021
Speaker: Riho Terras
Political group: PPE
Country: Italy
Language: ET

Lugupeetav istungi juhataja. Eelmisel nädalal toimus kahe diktaatori Putini ja Lukašenka kohtumine, kus kinnitati Vene ja Valgevene ühine sõjaline doktriin. Täna on selge, et Putinile igavest truudust vandunud Lukašenka on seda doktriini asunud eriti agaralt ellu viima. Rünnakud Euroopa Liidu välispiiri vastu on osa laiemast strateegiast, mille eesmärk on rünnata lääne väärtusruumi. Lüüa lõhesid ja murendada solidaarsust Euroopa sees. Putin juhib seda mängu ja Lukašenka on tema ustav vasall, kes püüab Moskvalt soodsamaid renditingimusi välja kaubelda. Täna peame andma selge sõnumi – me oleme Poolaga solidaarsed. Poola ei ole mitte probleem, vaid on täna rinderiik. See, mida me näeme, ei ole põgenikekriis, vaid rünnak Euroopa Liidu vastu, milles kasutatakse inimkilbina naisi ja lapsi. Euroopa Liit peab rahastama piiritaristu rajamist, juhul kui selline palve esitatakse. Sanktsioonidega tuleb edasi liikuda, sest paljud Euroopa ettevõtted, kes teenivad raha Valgevenes ja maksavad seal makse, toetavad sellega kuritegelikku režiimi. Lennufirmad, mis veavad inimesi Valgevenesse, neile tuleb samuti rakendada sanktsioone. Niisamuti tuleb avaldada jõulist survet lähteriikidele, et nad lõpetaksid organiseeritud inimkaubanduse soosimise. Ma tänan.
Debate: The escalating humanitarian crisis on the EU-Belarusian border, in particular in Poland
Date: WEDNESDAY, 10 NOVEMBER 2021
Speaker: Juan Fernando López Aguilar
Political group: S-D
Country: Germany
Language: ES

Señor presidente, alto representante Borrell, cuando un desafío humanitario alcanza una situación límite, precisamente en los momentos más difíciles y de peor manejo, es útil volver a los principios, y el primero es el que nos recuerda que, si hay gobernantes sin escrúpulos que instrumentalizan ⸺ Por eso, la segunda lección es que la respuesta europea tiene que ser unitaria y también coherente con sus valores; solidaria, sí, con Polonia, con Lituania, con Letonia y con toda la Europa del Sur, pero sobre todo coherente con su propio Derecho legislado. De modo que la tercera lección es que el Derecho importa: los derechos humanos importan, los derechos fundamentales de esas personas desesperadas, que están siendo instrumentalizadas en la frontera exterior, pero también el Derecho europeo de asilo, el Sistema Europeo Común de Asilo, que es vinculante para todos los Estados miembros y debe ser respetado. Y, por supuesto, también la dimensión exterior, la protección de las fronteras exteriores de la Unión, que tiene que ser unitaria: no solidaria con Polonia y con Letonia, sino desde la conciencia de que es la frontera del conjunto de la Unión Europea, como en el continente africano Ceuta y Melilla, o como las islas del Egeo: del conjunto de la Unión Europea. Y por eso el mensaje importante es que tiene que saberse que es una lección irónica para Polonia, que ha cuestionado la consistencia del Derecho europeo, el que se esté poniendo a prueba precisamente la unidad de la Unión Europea en la frontera de Polonia con el régimen canalla de Lukashenka en Bielorrusia.
Debate: The escalating humanitarian crisis on the EU-Belarusian border, in particular in Poland
Date: WEDNESDAY, 10 NOVEMBER 2021
Speaker: Fabienne Keller
Political group: Renew
Country: Poland
Language: FR

Monsieur le Président, Monsieur le Haut-Représentant, cher Josep Borrell, la situation à la frontière entre la Pologne et la Biélorussie est effroyable. Des enfants, des femmes, des hommes sont utilisés comme des armes pour déstabiliser notre espace européen commun. Face à cette nouvelle menace hybride, les piliers du projet européen que sont l’intégrité de nos frontières communes et nos valeurs humanistes et de paix tremblent. Le responsable – plusieurs collègues l’ont dit – s’appelle Loukachenko. C’est contre lui que nous devons réagir avec fermeté. Avec mes collègues du groupe Renew Europe, nous souhaitons, Monsieur le Haut-Représentant, une réponse européenne forte et rapide en soutien à la Pologne et à la Lituanie, l’adoption de sanctions plus fortes contre le régime de Loukachenko et la sanction des compagnies aériennes qui multiplient les vols vers la Biélorussie. Sur le fond, il nous faudra aussi réviser le code Schengen pour établir une réponse rapide face à ces nouvelles menaces hybrides. Et puis, avec ma collègue, Róża Thun, je voudrais interpeller le gouvernement polonais qui refuse le soutien de nos agences Frontex et Europol. La protection des frontières extérieures est l’affaire de tous, je souhaite une Union solidaire et unie.
Debate: The escalating humanitarian crisis on the EU-Belarusian border, in particular in Poland
Date: WEDNESDAY, 10 NOVEMBER 2021
Speaker: Markéta Gregorová
Political group: Verts/ALE
Country: France
Language: EN

Mr President, listening to this whole debate, I decided to dedicate the first half of my speech to silence for the victims of dictators who are manipulating human lives.  Now to business. I urge the Member States to extend the sanctions against Lukashenko’s regime, as well as other enablers of this unacceptable human trafficking, and to start discussing activation of Article 4 of the North Atlantic Treaty. Moreover, Poland needs the help and cooperation of Frontex and the European Asylum Support Office to stop illegal pushbacks at the EU borders.  Proper registration of asylum claims needs to start now, before the winter strips these people of their last hopes and lives, and it needs to happen yesterday.
Debate: The escalating humanitarian crisis on the EU-Belarusian border, in particular in Poland
Date: WEDNESDAY, 10 NOVEMBER 2021
Speaker: Maximilian Krah
Political group: ID
Country: Greece
Language: DE

Herr Präsident, Herr Kommissar, meine Damen und Herren! Es muss eins klar sein: Wenn der Damm an der polnischen Ostgrenze bricht, dann werden es nicht mehr 50 Flüge sein, die pro Woche in Minsk mit Migranten landen – dann kommen 500. Entweder Polen hält seine Grenze und lässt niemanden durch – Und genau deshalb verdient Polen jede Unterstützung, und deshalb habe ich kein Verständnis für die Rufe, die hier Frontex in Marsch setzen wollen, damit es keine  Er spekuliert darauf, dass wir in Brüssel zu schwach sind, den Kampf durchzuhalten. Und deshalb muss es heißen: Wir sind stark, wir sind solidarisch und wir lassen keinen durch. Es gibt kein Recht auf illegale Einwanderung.
Debate: The escalating humanitarian crisis on the EU-Belarusian border, in particular in Poland
Date: WEDNESDAY, 10 NOVEMBER 2021
Speaker: François-Xavier Bellamy
Political group: PPE
Country: France
Language: FR

Monsieur le Président, à l’Est de l’Europe, la dictature biélorusse est en train d’organiser une crise migratoire et en ce moment même, au moment où nous nous parlons, la Pologne fait face à des milliers de personnes massées à ses frontières. Ceci n’est pas le problème de la Pologne, ceci est notre problème. Ces personnes veulent entrer illégalement en Europe et c’est toute l’Europe que la Pologne défend. Si nous ne l’aidons pas, nous n’avons pas d’avenir, car celui qui ne maîtrise pas ses frontières est forcément le jouet du premier chantage migratoire venu et il abandonne l’essentiel. Ceux qui attaquaient Frontex, ici même, il y a encore quelques mois, disaient défendre les droits fondamentaux mais c’est seulement notre faiblesse qui permet à Loukachenko, comme à Erdoğan hier, de mettre en danger de mort les milliers de personnes qu’il pousse vers l’Europe pour nous déstabiliser. Aujourd’hui, quand la Pologne est en première ligne face à cette attaque manifeste, les mêmes s’en prennent à la Pologne comme si c’était elle qu’il fallait prendre pour cible. L’Europe est-elle capable de s’unir pour relever les défis qui nous concernent tous et préserver ses principes? Face à une crise aussi grave, la solidarité n’est pas négociable et elle passe, pour commencer, par le financement des infrastructures nécessaires à la protection de nos frontières. Maintenant.
Debate: The escalating humanitarian crisis on the EU-Belarusian border, in particular in Poland
Date: WEDNESDAY, 10 NOVEMBER 2021
Speaker: Evin Incir
Political group: S-D
Country: Hungary
Language: EN

Mr President, humanitarian catastrophe: that is what this is about. People are stuck in no man’s land. We have the dictatorship of Lukashenko on one side, and then on the other side we have the authoritarianism of Kaczyński. The tool of dictatorship is the same regardless of if we talk about Lukashenko in Belarus or Erdoğan in Turkey. Using human beings who are already in vulnerable situations is a disgrace. Lukashenko’s dictatorship doesn’t have very long tentacles beyond its own borders, and we should therefore not show any mercy. It’s all about sanctions, sanctions, sanctions. And we also need to continue supporting the democratic opposition of Belarus. It is people’s lives we are talking about. The even sadder part is the action of our own Member State. The Polish national conservative party in government, we already know, knows no borders. And they do not know how to spell rule of law, nor democracy, and nor do they know how to spell human rights. It’s not acceptable that journalists, Frontex and the UNHCR are banned from working in the border area. And finally we need a common migration and asylum policy in place so that no dictators can dictate our way of acting.
Debate: The escalating humanitarian crisis on the EU-Belarusian border, in particular in Poland
Date: WEDNESDAY, 10 NOVEMBER 2021
Speaker: Tomas Tobé
Political group: PPE
Country: Estonia
Language: EN

Mr President, let us be clear what this is about. This is about a dictator that uses all means possible to cling to power – the power that he has stolen from the Belarusian people. This is about Lukashenko trying to destabilise the European Union, and this is a goal that he shares with the regime in Moscow.  This is not about migration policy. This is now a question of whether Europe can stand strong or whether Europe is weak. So, High Representative, I must say that now is the time for Europe to show that we will support Poland, that we will support Latvia, Lithuania. We have to protect the European borders. And yes, we should always protect European values too. But this is not the time to give in and be weak.  So please, High Representative, be strong and defend Europe.
Debate: The escalating humanitarian crisis on the EU-Belarusian border, in particular in Poland
Date: WEDNESDAY, 10 NOVEMBER 2021
Speaker: Pietro Bartolo
Political group: S-D
Country: Italy
Language: IT

Signor Presidente, onorevoli colleghi, parto dal presupposto che l'azione di Lukashenko ovviamente è da condannare senza se e senza ma. Il presidente Charles Michel ha annunciato l'apertura di una discussione sul finanziamento di barriere fisiche contro i migranti: ma di cosa dobbiamo discutere? Stiamo parlando di azioni immorali, prima che illegali. Continuano a parlare di guerra ibrida contro l'Unione europea: per me è chiarissimo che le persone non devono essere strumentalizzate, ma non facciamo assolutamente il loro gioco! Mettiamo al primo posto il rispetto delle persone: si tratta di esseri umani e non di nemici da cui difenderci; stiamo parlando di persone che vengono respinte in maniera violenta e brutale; persone ammassate ai nostri confini, abbandonate al freddo senza cibo e senza cure; persone a cui non viene permesso di fare una domanda d'asilo. Non ho altre parole se non una sola: vergogna! Vergogna! Sono stati schierati 15 000 poliziotti contro persone innocenti, inermi e disarmate. Neanche fossimo in guerra! Smettetela di parlare di guerra, parliamo di emergenza umanitaria e rendiamoci degni dei valori fondanti di questa Unione: un'Unione senza muri, un'Unione dei diritti, un'Unione senza odio!