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Debate: Need for a speedy adoption of the asylum and migration package
Date: WEDNESDAY, 4 OCTOBER 2023
Speaker: Malik Azmani
Political group: Renew
Country: Netherlands
Language: EN

Let’s hope also that Coreper this morning will succeed. Hope for real progress on the migration and asylum pact. Thinking ahead to the informal summit in Granada, where Europe wants this hope to be turned into results. Because there is no doubt: to adopt this migration pact this mandate, we need an agreement before the end of this year. And we need to be realistic: to get this package over the line, a tremendous amount of work still needs to be done. This will require a constructive approach also in this House. Here, dear colleagues, I remind us all that we have a big responsibility in doing so. Because agreement can only come from the political centre in this House. Let it be a broad majority that delivers real European solutions to the challenges of our time – as we did for COVID, as we continue to do for Ukraine. And we cannot reward those who spread fear about migration for electoral reasons, but vote against EU actions again and again. Managing migration in the proper way is not easy. It requires actions on all sides, including the external dimension. We need to engage with third countries to address the root causes of migration and provide also stability in the neighbourhood. And we know the building blocks: fight the migrant smuggling networks, solve the root causes of irregular migration, more legal pathways and truly effective readmission, and return policy. Of course, our agreement with third countries should not only concern stopping irregular migration, but they should be about investing in a long-term, broad partnership with our neighbouring countries and countries of origin. Colleagues, the last weeks have revolved around our crisis response to Lampedusa and the tragic events unfolding there. A European response is needed and we need it now. In the migration pact, a crisis mechanism is foreseen. Why should we wait for the adoption of it? Why can we not anticipate? Start, for example, implementing real EU support for the border return procedures for those who are likely to be granted for asylum, for example, and to have some solidarity in the European Union towards Italy? Dear colleagues, the clock is ticking and we are already approaching extra time. Together we can manage the challenges of migration. Where there is a will, there is a way.
Debate: Need for a speedy adoption of the asylum and migration package
Date: WEDNESDAY, 4 OCTOBER 2023
Speaker: Nicola Procaccini
Political group: ECR
Country: Poland
Language: IT

Senza ipocrisie, l'immigrazione illegale è anche uno strumento di guerra politica da parte della cosiddetta ideologia " Ma vi rendete conto che per assecondare le teorie immigrazioniste più radicali stiamo rinunciando alla conquista politica più preziosa della storia europea? Mi riferisco alla libera circolazione di persone e cose tra gli Stati europei. A Francoforte, due giorni fa, sulla scaletta dell'aereo proveniente dall'Italia, sono stati controllati i passaporti a tutti i passeggeri, compresi i nostri colleghi che erano diretti qui al Parlamento. Quindi, si ripristinano le frontiere interne, come quando non esisteva il trattato di Schengen, e nello stesso tempo si pretende di aprire indiscriminatamente quelle esterne, anche nei confronti di chi non ha alcun diritto di entrare in Europa. La verità è che fino a quando non sceglieremo la strada del contrasto all'immigrazione illegale, non saremo mai in grado di governare saggiamente l'immigrazione legale. Questa strada passa per le regole interne che ci daremo e per gli accordi e esterni che stipuleremo, passa attraverso un presidio terrestre e militare dei confini europei e passa attraverso la vittoria del buon senso comune e la sconfitta delle utopie massimaliste, proprio come è accaduto nel secolo scorso.
Debate: Need for a speedy adoption of the asylum and migration package
Date: WEDNESDAY, 4 OCTOBER 2023
Speaker: Marco Zanni
Political group: ID
Country: Portugal
Language: IT

E non sono io a dirlo, ma sono i numeri dell'Agenzia dell'ONU per i rifugiati, e questi numeri sono pubblici, li potete consultare tutti. Nel 2015 in Italia oltre 150 000 arrivi e quasi 3 000 tra morti e dispersi, nel 2016 oltre 180 000 arrivi e più di 4 500 morti, nel 2017 120 000 e 3 000 morti, tutti sotto i governi della sinistra. E cosa succede nel 2018? Un rappresentante delle istituzioni eletto dal popolo stabilisce un principio che dovrebbe essere naturale: in Italia e in Europa si entra solo legalmente. Immediatamente nel 2018 gli sbarchi scendono a 23 000 e i morti a 1 300, nel 2019 ancora i morti si dimezzano e gli sbarchi si dimezzano. Si arriva al punto più basso, il massimo della protezione delle frontiere esterne dell'Europa. Finita l'esperienza di questo governo, i numeri sono ritornati rapidamente a esplodere. Quindi, alla fine di questa analisi di questi numeri, vorrei chiedere a tutti voi chi in Europa negli ultimi dieci anni ha contribuito maggiormente a evitare tragedie e morti innocenti. Mi sembra che i numeri parlino chiaro. Questo per sintetizzare un concetto molto semplice: si deve partire dal blocco delle partenze e dal blocco delle morti. Se c'è una forte volontà politica questo si può fare.
Debate: Need for a speedy adoption of the asylum and migration package
Date: WEDNESDAY, 4 OCTOBER 2023
Speaker: Manon Aubry
Political group: The Left
Country: France
Language: FR

Je veux le dire ici clairement, on ne monte pas dans un radeau de fortune au péril de sa vie comme on monte sur un bateau de croisière pour traverser la mer Méditerranée. Douze mille personnes, c'est 0,003 % de la population européenne. Alors l'invasion migratoire est bien une fable que l'extrême droite se raconte pour se faire peur, comme on effrayait les enfants avec le grand méchant loup. Collègues de l'extrême droite, Monsieur Zanni, Monsieur Bardella, il est temps de grandir. Le grand méchant loup n'existe pas. Expliquez-moi comment nous pouvons, nous avons pu accueillir sans problème plus de 4 millions d'Ukrainiens forcés de fuir l'agresseur russe, mais nous serions aujourd'hui incapables d'accueillir douze mille exilés supplémentaires. À moins que ce ne soit leur couleur de peau ou leur religion qui vous dérange.  Monsieur le Commissaire, l'Union européenne est responsable du chaos à Lampedusa, souhaité par l'extrême droite et mis en place par la droite et les libéraux. Vous avez fermé des centres d'accueil, criminalisé des ONG de sauvetage en mer, bafoué les droits les plus élémentaires de tous les exilés. Vous avez sous-traité la gestion des frontières et de l'asile en signant des accords honteux avec des États comme la Tunisie qui abandonnent des migrants dans le désert et les laissent mourir de soif.  Les politiques migratoires inhumaines et illégales confirmées dans le nouveau pacte sur la migration et l'asile créent les conditions de la tragédie humanitaire qui se répète depuis des années au sud de l'Europe. Le règlement de crise, censé être à la fois ferme et humain, entérine en réalité la violation systématique des droits fondamentaux des exilés. Toujours les mêmes recettes, toujours les mêmes erreurs, toujours plus de vies brisées.  Et permettez-moi de vous dire que, même si votre objectif est de limiter les flux migratoires, votre politique n'est absolument pas efficace. Combien de morts en mer Méditerranée vous faudra-t-il encore pour que vous compreniez que votre politique et que l'approche sécuritaire ne fonctionne pas? Nous ne cesserons de le répéter, il faut une politique d'accueil qui garantit la dignité et les droits. Il faut protéger les ONG humanitaires, créer un corps civil de sauvetage en mer. En bref, il est temps de faire le seul choix qui vaille, celui de la solidarité plutôt que celui des barbelés.
Debate: Need for a speedy adoption of the asylum and migration package
Date: WEDNESDAY, 4 OCTOBER 2023
Speaker: Laura Ferrara
Political group: NI
Country: Poland
Language: IT

Signor Presidente, onorevoli colleghi, a tre anni dalla sua presentazione e a otto anni dalle prime proposte di riforma, il nuovo patto europeo per la migrazione e l'asilo non vede ancora la luce. E sono i paesi mediterranei come l'Italia che pagano il prezzo più caro delle divisioni, dei veti e dei ritardi europei. Lo ricordiamo ancora una volta: Lampedusa è terra di confine italiano ed europeo, ma è anche terra di speranza per moltissimi migranti che scappano da guerre, da persecuzioni e da miseria, e non è pagando i dittatori con fondi europei che risolviamo il problema, anzi lo aggraviamo. Quello che manca oggi sono le regole, manca il diritto d'asilo europeo. Serve una terza via, la via del buon senso, quella della solidarietà e delle vie legali e sicure di accesso all'Unione europea. In Italia siamo stanchi di continuare a contare i morti in mare, oltre 26 000 negli ultimi dieci anni. Abbiamo un urgente bisogno di un'equa ripartizione delle responsabilità. Allora l'Europa dimostri, con i fatti, di essere più forte degli estremismi e dei nazionalismi.
Debate: Need for a speedy adoption of the asylum and migration package
Date: WEDNESDAY, 4 OCTOBER 2023
Speaker: Jeroen Lenaers
Political group: PPE
Country: France
Language: EN

Mr President, dear colleagues, in 2016 the Juncker Commission presented its proposals for a better EU asylum and migration policy, learning the lessons of the 2015 refugee crisis.  Ever since that moment, we have been waiting – waiting for the day that Member States would finally find an agreement so we can do what our voters expect from us: managing migration in a better way. We request at this debate this morning to put the pressure on. The Member States’ ambassadors meeting this morning have to urgently find an agreement on the last remaining part of the pact, the crisis regulation. They must deliver today, because only then will we have a window of opportunity to really make an impact, and even that window will not be open forever. We cannot afford to lose any more time. We have to conclude this now, whatever it takes, because we need this pact. We need it to rebuild trust among our Member States, to move from ad-hoc individual responses to an EU-wide permanent solution based on solidarity. And we need it because fair sharing of responsibility will only happen when we have our European house in order. We need to strengthen our external borders, fight people smugglers and the instrumentalisation of migration and we need more effective returns. We need this this pact mostly also to regain the trust of our citizens and to show them that we are capable of managing migration in a responsible way by finding solutions in the centre, instead of leaving the narrative to the open-border shouters on the extreme left or the zero-migration shouters on the extreme right. I would like to thank Vice-President Schinas for his relentless efforts in trying to break the deadlock and find a reasonable landing zone for almost all Member States. His pact will prove to be a historic breakthrough in one of the most sensitive policy areas in the EU. But we first need to make it happen, and the EPP is committed to constructively playing its role and getting this done. You can count on us.
Debate: Need for a speedy adoption of the asylum and migration package
Date: WEDNESDAY, 4 OCTOBER 2023
Speaker: Pedro Marques
Political group: S-D
Country: Czechia
Language: EN

Mr President, Vice-President Schinas, it is indeed a timely debate, this one. Just two days ago, President Saied said he doesn’t need our charity. You see, Mr Vice-President, exporting the migration challenges faces this nasty reality, particularly if you think of paying an authoritarian regime, a few billions will do the trick. I can even imagine, President Saied, furious thinking, ‘so I was doing them a favour, and now they want to come here and see how I’ll treat the migrants. No way!’ The problem, Commissioner, and Mr Weber by the way, is that they don’t even want to us to have a glimpse on what they do with our money. They just continue with their policies with no regard for human rights. In the meantime, people did not stop coming, stranded in dangerous vessels through the summer while we were already supposedly dealing with implementation of the memorandum. We have to address migration in a completely different way. What we need is solidarity with the refugees, but also with those Member States, particularly Italy, where they arrive in Europe and with the communities where they are finally hosted. It is obvious we need to manage migration at our borders and handling the situation of the illegal arrivals, but certainly it doesn’t have to be done in an inhumane way. So, Commissioner and Mr Weber, let us refocus our energies on the Pact on Migration. Show real solidarity towards the frontline countries, step up our capacities at the Mediterranean to arrest the smugglers, increase the search and rescue capacity of this Europe and support the refugee seekers. And let’s not forget to put a priority into working with the origin and transit countries. We have global gateway. Let us make it count and build true partnerships for development. Where the populists want us to fail, let’s go humane!
Debate: Need for a speedy adoption of the asylum and migration package
Date: WEDNESDAY, 4 OCTOBER 2023
Speaker: Sophia in 't Veld
Political group: Renew
Country: Poland
Language: EN

Mr President, Mr Minister, Mr Commissioner, it has been said by many that the clock is ticking. We owe it to the citizens of Europe to finally adopt a proper asylum and migration policy. And so we are eagerly awaiting the position of the Council on the crisis regulation, which is the key to the rest of the package.  But, I warn you, that's not the end of the process, because a negotiating mandate should leave sufficient margin for negotiations and compromise with the European Parliament. It cannot be rigid. It's the start of negotiations between the two legislators.  I hear many people talk about realism. Realism means working seriously on the internal dimension of migration policies, a proper common European asylum and migration policy that includes not just mandatory solidarity, but mandatory relocation, because only that is real solidarity.  The famous blueprint Tunisia deal turns out not to be a blueprint, but a fob, a blueprint of how not to do it. Because a deal that props up a dictator that leads to massive human rights violations and deaths, a deal that is not enforceable and that has done absolutely nothing to reduce the number of arrivals is not a blueprint, but only a blueprint for how not to do it.  It is high time, after so many years that the Member States take their responsibility. This House is ready.
Debate: Need for a speedy adoption of the asylum and migration package
Date: WEDNESDAY, 4 OCTOBER 2023
Speaker: Jordi Solé
Political group: Verts/ALE
Country: Bulgaria
Language: ES

Señor presidente, llevamos años debatiendo cómo abordar el asilo y la migración con una política común europea y, a pesar de que este es uno de los debates más polarizados que tenemos, propenso al populismo y a la instrumentalización por parte de la extrema derecha —o, más bien, por eso—, es urgente cerrar un acuerdo, sobre todo el paquete sobre asilo y migración.  También es urgente porque la gestión actual es un fracaso. Fracaso en términos de derechos humanos, de vidas perdidas, de puntos de llegada saturados en algunas fronteras exteriores, de falta de corresponsabilidad por parte de muchos Gobiernos, de ONG criminalizadas por su acción solidaria y de mafias campando a sus anchas.  Estamos listos para culminar la negociación, pero seguiremos reclamando la plena solidaridad entre Estados, vías legales y seguras, el derecho al asilo y el cumplimiento del Derecho internacional y de los derechos humanos, particularmente en las fronteras y en la cooperación con terceros países. Queremos una gestión de la migración en base a los principios de solidaridad y dignidad humana, teniendo también en cuenta las necesidades de nuestras economías y las capacidades de acogida de nuestras sociedades.  Es urgente llegar a un acuerdo, pero este tiene que ser un buen acuerdo.
Debate: Need for a speedy adoption of the asylum and migration package
Date: WEDNESDAY, 4 OCTOBER 2023
Speaker: Beata Szydło
Political group: ECR
Country: Netherlands
Language: PL

Panie Przewodniczący! Szanowny Panie Komisarzu! Szanowni Państwo! Czy propozycje Komisji Europejskiej zawarte w pakcie migracyjnym ochronią Europę przed nielegalnymi imigrantami? Czy zapewnią bezpieczeństwo Europejczykom? Nie. To są złe rozwiązania i podobne propozycje słyszałam jako premier polskiego rządu w 2016 roku. Po kryzysie wywołanym przez zaproszenie nielegalnych migrantów przez Niemcy do Europy trzeba było szukać rozwiązań, które obronią Europejczyków, które uchronią Europę przed napływem nielegalnej imigracji. Tamte rozwiązania były złe. Po latach wracamy po raz kolejny do tego samego miejsca. Kolejny kryzys migracyjny. Tysiące nielegalnych migrantów trafiających do Europy. Przemytnicy ludzi. Handel ludźmi. Organizacje pozarządowe z Niemiec, które finansują ten proceder. Trzeba wreszcie temu się sprzeciwić i postawić tamę.  Polska chce znaleźć rozwiązania, które będą pomagały rzeczywiście tym ludziom, którzy pomocy wymagają. Ludziom, którzy mają trudne życie, którzy uciekają przed wojną. Udowodniliśmy, przyjmując do Polski uchodźców wojennych z Ukrainy, że takie rozwiązania są możliwe. Ale chcę jasno i bardzo wyraźnie powiedzieć, Polska nigdy nie zgodzi się na przyjmowanie nielegalnych migrantów, na relokację nielegalnych migrantów i na absurdalne opłaty za ludzi, którzy mają być relokowani do naszych krajów.
Debate: Need for a speedy adoption of the asylum and migration package
Date: WEDNESDAY, 4 OCTOBER 2023
Speaker: Jordan Bardella
Political group: ID
Country: France
Language: FR

Monsieur le Président, mes chers collègues, le drame de Lampedusa est notre avenir si nous ne reprenons pas dès maintenant le contrôle de nos frontières françaises, nationales et européennes. J’en veux pour preuve les propos de Mme von der Leyen qui a appelé les États membres à accueillir les migrants de Lampedusa, alors que pratiquement aucun d’entre eux ne répond aux critères du droit d’asile. J’en veux pour preuve la jurisprudence européenne qui a décidé d’entraver le refoulement. Sur le sol européen, les juges ont instauré un véritable droit à l’entrée et un appel d’air pour des millions de candidats à la ruée vers l’Europe. J’en veux pour preuve le détournement de Frontex, empêchée dans son rôle de garde-frontière et cantonnée à celui d’agence d’accueil. Je le dis ici, il n’y a pas d’alternative à la fermeté. Mettre en place la fermeté, c’est protéger les peuples d’Europe d’un monde brutal et sans règles, dans lequel les migrations de masse produisent autant de ravages sur le plan sécuritaire et culturel que les délocalisations en font sur le plan social. Mettre en place la fermeté, c’est dissuader les traversées et donc les drames humains. Il n’y a pas de droit à l’Europe qui nous obligerait à un accueil illimité et sans condition. Et il ne peut y en avoir parce que les pays européens ne seront jamais des terrains vagues appartenant à tous, vierges d’histoire et vides de peuples. Ils sont la terre des peuples d’Europe et ce sont précisément eux qui sont les seuls en droit de décider qui peut entrer sur leur territoire. Les seuls qui ont le droit de décider ce qu’ils veulent, à savoir être et demeurer eux-mêmes au XXIe siècle. Ce pacte sera tout l’enjeu des prochaines élections européennes du 9 juin prochain.
Debate: Need for a speedy adoption of the asylum and migration package
Date: WEDNESDAY, 4 OCTOBER 2023
Speaker: Malin Björk
Political group: The Left
Country: Czechia
Language: EN

Mr President, a speedy adoption of the package. But of what package? What policies? From our side, in The Left, in in partnership with citizens and organisations across and movements across Europe, we have consistently asked for European policy where we have shared responsibility between the Member States to receive people. We have a reception with dignity where we save lives in the Mediterranean and where we cooperate with third countries in order to propose democracy, peace, economic and social development and human rights. And the way negotiations are going is the very opposite. The European Union is making deals with authoritarian leaders, be it Erdogan in Turkey or in Tunisia. You want to see and you are negotiating currently a system built on systematic detention at borders and return to any country, even a safe third country, where people just pass by. And we have a system of systematic violence at the EU borders. This is what happens when the centre right give in to the extreme right racist narrative, a racist and authoritarian narrative. It is very dangerous.  We know that we can do differently. We have seen it with the reception of Ukrainian refugees. Thankfully, we have seen that fleeing Putin’s bombs and his war. We have seen solidarity between Member States. We have seen dignified reception conditions, so we know it can be done. Now. We also have to replicate and do the right thing when it comes to all refugees seeking protection in Europe from other wars, from other conflicts. This pact is not our pact.
Debate: Need for a speedy adoption of the asylum and migration package
Date: WEDNESDAY, 4 OCTOBER 2023
Speaker: Kostas Papadakis
Political group: NI
Country: Czechia
Language: EL

Κύριε Πρόεδρε, δεν αφήνουμε να ξεχαστεί το πολύνεκρο ναυάγιο- έγκλημα στην Πύλο. Ζητάμε απαντήσεις που η ελληνική κυβέρνηση, η Ευρωπαϊκή Ένωση και ο Frontex δεν δίνουν. Οι δε σύνοδοι υπουργών της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης, όπως και το MED9, επιβεβαίωσαν τη συναντίληψή τους για ενίσχυση της καταστολής και της διαλογής προσφύγων ανάλογα με τις ανάγκες του κεφαλαίου. Σε αυτή την κατεύθυνση, οι κυβερνήσεις Ελλάδας και Τουρκίας, υπό την αιγίδα της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης, απεργάζονται τη νέα, ακόμα πιο αντιδραστική εκδοχή της κοινής δήλωσης Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης-Τουρκίας, με επανενεργοποίηση απελάσεων, ενίσχυση διωγμών και καταστολή σε βάρος των ξεριζωμένων των ιμπεριαλιστικών σας πολέμων που προστίθενται στη σημερινή άθλια κατάσταση, με εγκλωβισμούς-πνιγμούς στο Αιγαίο, με επαναπροωθήσεις και με τη δράση των δουλεμπορικών κυκλωμάτων.  Το δε παζάρι για αυτήν τη συμφωνία όπως και για το νέο σύμφωνο αποτελούν τμήμα ενός ευρύτερου με γεωπολιτικές διαστάσεις παζαριού, που αφορούν και ζητήματα κυριαρχικών δικαιωμάτων στο πλαίσιο των ιμπεριαλιστικών ανταγωνισμών. Για αυτό, Έλληνες και ξένοι εργάτες να παλέψουν ενωμένοι για πλήρη δικαιώματα, ενάντια σε Ευρωπαϊκή Ένωση, κυβερνήσεις, κεφάλαιο και τις συμφωνίες τους.