Alternattiva Demokratika insists on European responsibility sharing for migrants

Alternattiva Demokratika and the European Greens are insisting with the EU on the concept of "responsibility sharing" on migration from Libya.

24 February 2011, 12:00am
by Matthew Vella

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Prof. Arnold Cassola, Alternattiva Demokratika spokesperson on EU and International Affairs, stated: "Until now a good number of EU member states have refused to accept the EU parliament and EU Commission proposal on 'responsibility sharing'. This egoistic attitude, which goes against the solidarity concept, cannot go on any more".

Cassola said that in view of the possibility of thousands of migrants fleeing from the brutal Gaddafi regime, the Maltese government, together with other like minded governments should insist for an immediately implementable plan, whereby the 27 EU member states "give hospitality and share equally and in a just way amongst themselves those people fleeing from the country and seeking refugee status in Malta or Lampedusa".

Prof. Cassola concluded: "Gaddafi's terror regime has been armed with British, French and other European weapons. It is about time that EU countries contribute to handling the humanitarian emergencies that they themselves have contributed to creating".

AD Chairperson, Michael Briguglio joins Green Group in the European Parliament President, Dany Cohn Bendit, in insisting that the European Commissioner Cecilia Malmström - as in the case of Bosnia - coordinates the assistance and the reception of refugees in danger and invokes the temporary protection clause.

Matthew Vella, a freelance journalist at MaltaToday, was formerly executive editor at Malt...

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Not sharing, but taking them all because they are their ex-colonizers while we never colonized any country to rob the of their riches and natural resources like the Europeans did.

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Some countries have been having it too good - profiting from Africa at the expense of the people - for too long. Frattini said the amount of immigrants can be up to 300,000 - a large number for Malta but nearly negligible if divided equally in the EU. Italy is howling wolf, but Malta and Greece aren't.