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Debate: Recent deaths in the Mediterranean and search and rescue at sea
Date: TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2021
Speaker: Jaak Madison
Political group: ID
Country: France
Language: EN

Madam President, first of all if you are looking at those numbers about migration flows to Italy, in 2017 it was 117 153; in 2018 it was 23 037 people; and in 2019, only 11 471 people. And it started to rise again. Last year, 34 000 migrants went to Italy.  What happened between? Between 2018 and 2019 the Minister of Internal Affairs in Italy was Matteo Salvini, who just closed all the harbours to foreign ships which were carrying people without any notification and without any background checks, with the result that they couldn’t control who they were, where they were coming from, whether they were real refugees, whether they were criminals or terrorists... And what we are doing here in this House is attacking Frontex, a body which is supposed to protect the EU’s external borders and we are attacking them because they are simply doing their job.  Most of us here in this Chamber are saying that we should continue with an open border policy and we should just let them in because otherwise they will die. But the problem is that if you don’t close the borders then you are just donating to human traffickers who are earning billions of euros with this business and more people will still die, and actually that is your fault. It’s the fault of the Commission, it’s the fault of all the leftists and liberals here who are just asserting solidarity and tolerance. They are telling us that we need more solidarity and at the same time of course they will not open their own homes to those people. They are saying that we have to do it. So it means that other people have to do it, not themselves who are living in a nice area with a good salary.
Debate: Recent deaths in the Mediterranean and search and rescue at sea
Date: TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2021
Speaker: Tineke Strik
Political group: Verts/ALE
Country: Poland
Language: EN

Madam President, Council and Commission, 10 years ago the world was shocked about the left-to-die boat, a boat that was not rescued in the Mediterranean Sea, which led to the death of 63 people. Since then, however, many more people have drowned despite the clear obligations of maritime law to go to their rescue and disembark people in a safe haven. Libyan ports are no safe haven. We know that migrants are sent to awful detention centres where they suffer from torture and even slavery. The EU funds and trains the Libyan coast guard and this outsourcing policy makes the fate of pullback migrants a European responsibility. It’s high time that we comply with our obligations and our values at the external borders, ensure search and rescue and disembarkation at European ports. And this is a common European responsibility.  The biggest task now for the EU as a whole is ensuring that lives are saved and responsibility for asylum seekers is shared equally, otherwise we will not have a common asylum policy.
Debate: Recent deaths in the Mediterranean and search and rescue at sea
Date: TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2021
Speaker: Beata Kempa
Political group: ECR
Country: Czechia
Language: PL

Pani Przewodnicząca, Pani Komisarz, Panie Ministrze! Każde życie ludzkie jest święte. To, które próbujemy dzisiaj chronić, jest wielką sprawą. Tylko w tym roku na Morzu Śródziemnym utonęło blisko siedmiuset imigrantów. To prawie trzy razy więcej niż w 2020 r. Liczby nigdy nie oddadzą powagi tragedii, a jedynie jej skalę. Nie powiedzą nam o bólu bliskich osób zmarłych i nie opiszą emocji.  Bezwzględnie należy pomagać tym, którzy tej pomocy potrzebują. Ale nasze emocje, nasze współczucie trzeba natychmiast przekuć na bardzo konkretne działanie. I mamy do tego instrumenty. Po pierwsze, należy bezwzględnie walczyć z przemytem ludzi. To oni powodują tak naprawdę to, że ci biedni ludzie, chcący lepszego życia... Wczoraj rozmawialiśmy o klimacie. To też ma wpływ na migrację, podobnie jak wojny i wszystkie inne konflikty. Przecież ci ludzie nie są temu winni. Dzisiaj giną tylko dlatego, że ktoś im obiecuje lepszy świat, bierze za to pieniądze i prowadzi na pewną śmierć. Zatem pierwsza kwestia to walka z przemytnikami, druga to pomoc na miejscu, bezwzględnie pomoc rozwojowa. Myślę, że to jest niezwykle ważne. A trzecia – pakt migracji i azylu oraz dyrektywa powrotowa.
Debate: Recent deaths in the Mediterranean and search and rescue at sea
Date: TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2021
Speaker: Giorgos Georgiou
Political group: The Left
Country: France
Language: EL

Κυρία Πρόεδρε, κυρία Johansson, ακούστε μια φωνή:  «Ήμασταν τρεις εβδομάδες χαμένοι και πεινασμένοι στη θάλασσα. Ρίχναμε θαλασσινό νερό στα παπούτσια μας για να ξεγελάσουμε τη δίψα μας».  Αυτές ήταν οι πρώτες κουβέντες της δεκαεφτάχρονης Αΐσα όταν την περισυνέλεξαν. Πενήντα έξι άνθρωποι πέθαναν πάνω στη βάρκα της Αΐσα. Αυτή δεν είναι δυστυχώς ούτε η πρώτη ούτε η τελευταία ιστορία. Πίσω από κάθε άτομο που πεθαίνει προσπαθώντας να φτάσει στη γη της Επαγγελίας -έτσι νομίζουν οι καημένοι ότι είναι η Ευρώπη- είναι ένας πατέρας, μια μάνα, ένας αδελφός, φίλοι που μένουν πίσω για να ξεπληρώσουν τον διακινητή, με την ευχή και την ελπίδα ότι το ταξίδι του παιδιού τους δεν θα είναι μοιραίο.  Πεντακόσιοι μετανάστες φέτος πνίγηκαν στα νερά της Μεσογείου, στην προσπάθεια να έρθουν στην Ευρώπη, 36.000 από το 1993. Ψυχροί αριθμοί για κάποιους, την ώρα που πνίγεται στα νερά της Μεσογείου το κύρος της ανθρωπότητας. Σταματήστε να φτιάχνετε φρούρια! Σταματήστε να φτιάχνετε φρούρια επί γης...
Debate: Recent deaths in the Mediterranean and search and rescue at sea
Date: TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2021
Speaker: Lefteris Nikolaou-Alavanos
Political group: NI
Country: Germany
Language: EL

Κυρία Πρόεδρε, με το νέο αντιδραστικό Σύμφωνο για το Άσυλο και τη Μετανάστευση, η Ευρωπαϊκή Ένωση και η κυβέρνηση της Νέας Δημοκρατίας προκλητικά βαφτίζουν «αλληλεγγύη» τον διαμοιρασμό της καταστολής και των απελάσεων στα κράτη μέλη. Ενισχύεται η πολιτική εγκλωβισμού προσφύγων και μεταναστών στα κράτη πρώτης εισόδου, ενσωματώνοντας και επεκτείνοντας την απαράδεκτη συμφωνία Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης-Τουρκίας, ενώ παραμένει άθικτος ο Κανονισμός του Δουβλίνου που προμηνύει νέες Μόριες, κλειστές φυλακές, τις οποίες καταδικάζουν με τον αγώνα διαρκείας τους οι νησιώτες, αλλά και νέες δοκιμασίες και βάσανα για πρόσφυγες και μετανάστες.  Οι επαναπροωθήσεις με την εμπλοκή της Frontex, που θέτουν σε κίνδυνο τη ζωή προσφύγων και μεταναστών, προκαλούν ερωτηματικά που δεν απαντώνται από το μπαλάκι ευθυνών μεταξύ κυβέρνησης και Frontex, ούτε με «ομάδες εργασίας» για τη δήθεν διόρθωσή της, ενώ η δράση της αναβαθμίζεται στρατιωτικά και παραβιάζει τα κυριαρχικά δικαιώματα κάθε κράτους, με την ανάληψη της φύλαξης των συνόρων.  Ζητούμε να κλείσουν όλα τα κέντρα υποδοχής και να μη φτιαχτούν άλλα. Να απεγκλωβιστούν οι πρόσφυγες και οι μετανάστες, μεταφερόμενοι σε ανθρώπινες δομές φιλοξενίας στην ενδοχώρα, προκειμένου με γρήγορες διαδικασίες να μεταβούν στις χώρες προορισμού τους και να αιτηθούν άσυλο.
Debate: Recent deaths in the Mediterranean and search and rescue at sea
Date: TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2021
Speaker: Juan Ignacio Zoido Álvarez
Political group: PPE
Language: ES

Señora presidenta, entre ayer y hoy, más de seis mil inmigrantes —mil quinientos de ellos menores y una persona tristemente fallecida— cruzaron a nado la frontera de Ceuta, la frontera entre Europa y África, ante la pasividad de los agentes marroquíes; una pasividad que no es imprevista, sino todo lo contrario: es el esperado fruto de la nefasta política exterior del Gobierno de Sánchez frente a Marruecos.  Marruecos es un socio estratégico para España y para toda Europa; Marruecos muestra la necesidad de una colaboración fundamental en materias como la inmigración, la inteligencia, la lucha contra el yihadismo, el crimen organizado y las mafias que trafican con seres humanos.  Por eso, en España, todos los Gobiernos, tanto socialistas como populares, han cultivado una relación de buena vecindad y estrecha cooperación que ha servido de modelo a la Unión Europea. Todos, hasta ahora.  El Gobierno de Sánchez ha permitido a los radicales y populistas de Podemos que boicoteen las relaciones entre España y Marruecos. Tras numerosos desaires diplomáticos e irresponsables declaraciones, ahora Sánchez permite la entrada en nuestro país del líder del Frente Polisario Brahim Gali, enemigo público de Marruecos y acusado de crímenes contra la humanidad.  Con esta nueva afrenta, Sánchez está deteriorando gravemente las relaciones de España y de toda Europa con Marruecos, y la llegada de miles de inmigrantes irregulares a la Unión Europea es la consecuencia.  Por eso, pido a la Comisión Europea que ayude a reconducir las relaciones entre España y Marruecos, que no permita que Sánchez y la izquierda radical tiren por la borda décadas de colaboración y que ponga freno a la nueva oleada migratoria.
Debate: Recent deaths in the Mediterranean and search and rescue at sea
Date: TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2021
Speaker: Bettina Vollath
Political group: S-D
Country: Austria
Language: DE

Darum fordere ich heute einmal nicht, sondern erinnere ausschließlich daran, dass es um Menschen geht und nicht nur um Zahlen und wir keine Reden mehr brauchen, sondern echte Lösungen. Es geht um Menschen wie Rehan Kurdi und ihre Söhne Galip und Aylan, dessen Leichnam am Strand durch die internationale Presse ging, wie Ali Mbengu, dessen Sportkarriere mit 22 Jahren grausam endete, wie Safi Siyap, die nie ihren zweiten Geburtstag erlebte, weil sie zuvor vor Lesbos ertrank, wie Midour Mohamed, dessen Boot die spanische Küste nie erreichte – er war 29 –, wie Darin, Didar, Shiar, Amina und Dijwar Rashid – fünf Geschwister alle unter 13 Jahren –, als sie vor den Toren Europas starben. 17 000 Menschen – ich würde Tage brauchen, um diese Liste zu verlesen.
Debate: Recent deaths in the Mediterranean and search and rescue at sea
Date: TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2021
Speaker: Sandro Gozi
Political group: Renew
Country: France
Language: IT

Signora Presidente, onorevoli colleghi, il Mediterraneo, la culla della civiltà europea, è diventato un cimitero a causa dell'egoismo e della miopia di alcuni europei. Alcuni, perché l'Europa è ancora troppo divisa: una vera vergogna! Per me vale un principio molto semplice: quando una persona rischia di morire in mare, va salvata. Altro che porti chiusi o blocchi navali di cui straparla qualcuno! Eppure, il vero problema non è neppure il salvataggio: il vero nodo è dove sbarcare dopo aver salvato degli esseri umani. La Libia non è un posto sicuro. C'è un vuoto giuridico, un problema che, per gli Stati con frontiere marittime, è aggravato dalle sempre più assurde regole di Dublino, assolutamente da superare. Stabilizzare la Libia e garantire la sicurezza dei suoi confini a Sud resta la priorità di lungo periodo. Lavorare con gli Stati di origine per smantellare i traffici di esseri umani, anche usando la politica di cooperazione, è una scelta ormai imprescindibile. Gestire la migrazione economica, insieme, è urgente. Ma riattivare gli accordi Malta del 2019 e ridistribuire i richiedenti asilo tra gli Stati di buona volontà è l'unica soluzione immediata. La Commissione deve sostenere con fondi europei delle procedure d'asilo accelerate, i rimpatri dei non aventi diritto, dare dei fondi ai Paesi di origine che collaborano sui rimpatri. Non perdiamo altro tempo: non lasciamo spazio ai troppi spacciatori di demagogia a buon mercato; assumiamoci tutte le nostre responsabilità. Siamo europei: è il momento di dimostrarlo.
Debate: Recent deaths in the Mediterranean and search and rescue at sea
Date: TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2021
Speaker: Tom Vandendriessche
Political group: ID
Country: Belgium
Language: NL

Voorzitter, de voorbije jaren werden we overspoeld door illegale migratie. Door de coronacrisis echter sloten de grenzen opnieuw en daalden de migratiecijfers spectaculair. Het bewijs is hiermee geleverd dat een ander migratiebeleid wel degelijk mogelijk is. Nu de grenzen opnieuw openen, staan er opnieuw miljoenen klaar op de kusten van Afrika om met behulp van mensensmokkelaars en criminele ngo’s onze thuislanden illegaal binnen te dringen. We mogen de fouten van het verleden niet herhalen. Daarom is een paradigmashift nodig in het migratiebeleid, dat, net zoals in Australië, veiligheid, menselijkheid en solidariteit moet verenigen. Wie Europa illegaal binnendringt, moet elke kans op verblijf verliezen. Enkel zo breken we het businessmodel van de mensensmokkel. Asielrecht mag niet langer als migratiekanaal misbruikt worden. Opvang moet per definitie in de regio van herkomst gebeuren. In plaats van het rampzalige “Wir schaffen das”-beleid is het tijd voor het beleid van het gezond verstand.
Debate: Recent deaths in the Mediterranean and search and rescue at sea
Date: TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2021
Speaker: Karlo Ressler
Political group: PPE
Country: Germany
Language: EN

Madam President, despite all the challenges Europe is facing, the reform of EU migration laws cannot be postponed and new tragedies cannot be neglected. States with external borders still face high migratory pressure and face the risk of becoming hotspots. We cannot risk another crisis like the one we saw in 2015. Tragic outcomes we witness at sea have to be avoided. Some progress has been made. The package presented last September was not a work from scratch, but has developed from previous experiences that we have to take into account. We now have to take this opportunity to continue with the progress made.  The Parliament is ready to do the work, and we expect from our colleagues in the Council the move towards compromise. All the pieces of the puzzle are on the table: better protection of external borders; efficient asylum procedures where we distinguish between refugees and economic migrants; humane reception conditions for refugees; effective returns and better cooperation with third countries.  Now it’s time to act.
Debate: Recent deaths in the Mediterranean and search and rescue at sea
Date: TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2021
Speaker: Dietmar Köster
Political group: S-D
Country: Lithuania
Language: DE

Frau Präsidentin! Flüchtlingsabwehr statt Menschenrettung –anstelle von Rettungsschiffen schickt die EU Frontex—Flugzeuge ins zentrale Mittelmeer. Frontex arbeitet in Abfang— und Pullback—Aktionen systematisch mit der sogenannten libyschen Küstenwache zusammen. Für diesen Völkerrechtsbruch gibt es zahlreiche Belege. Konsequenzen – keine.   Letzten Donnerstag stand der siebenundzwanzigjährige Flüchtling Mohamad auf Lesbos vor Gericht. Als das Schlauchboot, auf dem er und 33 weitere Personen saßen, in Seenot geriet, versuchte Mohamad, das Boot sicher an Land zu bringen. Dabei ertranken zwei Frauen. Nach dem griechischen Migrationsgesetz reicht die bloße Berührung des Steuerrads aus, um als Schleuser zu gelten. Konsequenzen? Mohamad H. wurde wegen Schmuggels und des Verschuldens des Todes von zwei Menschen angeklagt und zu 146 Jahren Freiheitsentzug verurteilt.  Das ist die bittere Realität in der Europäischen Union heute. Wenn wir konkret etwas tun wollen, um die humanitäre Krise auf dem Mittelmeer zu überwinden, wenn Menschen nicht mehr ertrinken sollen, dann appelliere ich an die Kommission und den Rat: Organisieren Sie endlich ein ziviles Seenotrettungsprogramm!
Debate: Recent deaths in the Mediterranean and search and rescue at sea
Date: TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2021
Speaker: Jean-Lin Lacapelle
Political group: ID
Country: Germany
Language: FR

Madame la Présidente, nous débattons aujourd’hui des morts récentes de migrants en Méditerranée, que vous imputez toujours à un manque de protection ou de bienveillance des nations européennes. Mais cette situation est en réalité en grande partie de votre responsabilité, car c’est vous qui votez et entretenez les pompes aspirantes de l’émigration; car c’est vous qui désarmez moralement et juridiquement Frontex; car c’est vous qui accueillez et applaudissez Carola Rackete, capitaine du Sea-Watch, accusée de forcer le blocus des ports italiens et de récupérer les embarcations des passeurs dans les eaux territoriales libyennes. Vous déclarez que les migrants se précipitent vers l’Europe en prenant le risque de mourir; mais en fait, vous les encouragez. Notre devoir de solidarité – la vraie solidarité, pas votre charité hypocrite – exige que nous arrêtions de présenter l’Europe comme un eldorado pour les populations du tiers-monde. Nous devons, à l’instar des Australiens, construire une politique migratoire dissuasive en contrôlant nos frontières, en intensifiant les refoulements, en expulsant les clandestins et en réformant le droit d’asile. C’est avec cette politique de fermeté et de dissuasion, comme l’ont fait les Australiens, que nous empêcherons de nouveaux drames en Méditerranée.
Debate: Recent deaths in the Mediterranean and search and rescue at sea
Date: TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2021
Speaker: Cyrus Engerer
Political group: S-D
Country: Romania
Language: MT

Sinjura President, in-numru ta' mwiet fil-Baħar Mediterran li wħud minna nsejħulu d-dar tagħna, din is-sena diġà laħaq kważi s-700 persuna - più o meno, l-istess numru ta' deputati li għandna f'dan il-Parlament. Immaġinaw dawk is-700 persuna bilqiegħda fuq is-siġġijiet ta' quddiemna jgħidulna x'wassalhom biex jitilgħu fuq id-dgħajjes, għaliex raw li kienu aktar siguri mir-realtà illi kienu qegħdin jgħixu fiha f'pajjiżhom. Is-sigurtà hi dritt fundamentali tal-bniedem. Ir-reazzjoni Ewropea għal dan kollu dejjem kienet li noffru t-talb u li nippruvaw ngħattu din l-isfida bil-flus. Intant, inħallu l-pajjiżi fil-fruntiera tal-Unjoni Ewropea waħedhom, minkejja li dik il-fruntiera hija Ewropea, fruntiera tagħna lkoll. Kemm ħa ndumu ngħoddu l-iġsma fil-Mediterran? Hemm bżonn ta' sistema Ewropea kkoordinata mill-Istati Membri, waħda li mhux biss tieħu ħsieb is-salvataġġ, imma li tara li l-piż tar-rifuġjati jinqasam bejn l-Unjoni Ewropea kollha.
Debate: Recent deaths in the Mediterranean and search and rescue at sea
Date: TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2021
Speaker: Teuvo Hakkarainen
Political group: ID
Country: Austria
Language: FI

Arvoisa puhemies, päällimmäinen tunne hukkumisissa on tietysti sääli. Mutta kenen syytä ovat nämä kuolemat ja murhat? Euroopan unionin itsensä ja palvomansa humanistisen hulluuden. Miksi rajat ovat yhä auki? Kukaan ei huku, jos ilmoitamme, että vastaanotto Eurooppaan on loppunut. Kukaan ei lähde matkaan. Erinäisten epämääräisten järjestöjen ylläpitämät laivat vahtivat Libyan rannikolla houkutellen veneilijöitä lähtemään. Näiden ihmiskauppiaiden häätäminen mereltä vähentäisi lähtijöiden määrää. Miksi heidät tuodaan ollenkaan Eurooppaan? Heidäthän pitäisi käännyttää takaisin lähtöpaikkaansa. Yhäkö täällä lapsellisesti uskotaan, että Eurooppa pystyy huoltamaan kaikki kymmenet ja kymmenet miljoonat ihmiset, jotka ovat lähtötelineissään odotellen vain otollista hetkeä kääntääkseen kenkänsä kohti Eurooppaa.
Debate: Recent deaths in the Mediterranean and search and rescue at sea
Date: TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2021
Speaker: Ylva Johansson
Language: EN

We need to do things right now and we are doing things right now. We are giving direct support to Member States under pressure. EU agencies are assisting the Italian authorities in the registration and screening of newly arrived people in Lampedusa: 190 Frontex staff from 26 Member States, 150 staff from the European Asylum Support Office (EASO) are supporting the Italian migration and asylum system. My services are on the ground and I have set up the new European Contact Group on Search and Rescue to bring together Member States and Schengen countries and all relevant parties, including NGOs and our agencies, to help shape a common approach to search and rescue.  Search and rescue is going on, of course, like the Spanish officers that saved Aicha and many others who are doing the search and rescue at sea right now. But we have to realise that even though the tragedies are at sea, sustainable solutions lie on dry land. We need sustainable solutions. We can’t continue with ad hoc solutions.  So, for example, right now we are relying on voluntary relocations. That will not be enough. That’s why I proposed in the Pact on Migration and Asylum a binding solidarity mechanism specially tailored for search and rescue cases. We can’t, of course, have NGOs that carry out humanitarian efforts to rescue lives being criminalised. That’s why I proposed in the Pact that this should not be possible.  We need a sustainable solution. I met with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, last week and we talked about the search and rescue cases. His immediate response was that the most important thing is to get the new Pact on Migration and Asylum adopted. I count on you in this Parliament – I know I can do that – and I count on the Council to be constructive, to find the right pragmatic solutions. Migration is manageable. Lives can be saved. We have to work together for the European solution to do that.
Debate: Recent deaths in the Mediterranean and search and rescue at sea
Date: TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2021
Speaker: Angel Dzhambazki
Political group: ECR
Country: Germany
Language: BG

Вярвам, че на първо място Европа трябва да защитава границите си и да връща всеки, който се опитва по нелегален начин да ги прекоси. Нашите икономики, нашите здравни системи, нашите социални системи няма да издържат на безкрайния наплив от желаещите да се възползват от тях. Затова ние трябва да се защитим и съхраним. Трябва да инвестираме в способностите за защита на външните граници, трябва строго да се противопоставим на всеки един, който участва в трафика на хора. Европа не е пансион и спасителен пояс за всеки от целия свят. Предстоят ни тежки времена и е време да мислим първо за оцеляването и просперитета на нашите държави и нации.
Debate: Human rights protection and the EU external migration policy
Date: TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2021
Speaker: Nicola Beer
Country: Germany
Language: DE

Als nächster Punkt der Tagesordnung folgt die Aussprache über den Bericht von Tineke Strik im Namen des Ausschusses für auswärtige Angelegenheiten über den Schutz der Menschenrechte und die externe Migrationspolitik der EU (