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Europe is certainly in front of another great challenge, the challenge of a politics European on the immigration. Also there as in other sectors, as when we speak about safety and harmonization of the juridical rules, we have to think that only Europe as common politics of 25 countries, is able, in a winning way, to face this challenge of a legal and illegal immigration, that otherwise it could not surely face. Who can think that the traffic of desperates arriving from the South, from Africa, from Sub-Saharan Africa, that risk their lifes and often forgive them, in the Mediterranean, or even also before, in the desert of Lybia, to arrive toward Europe, that these can be stopped with military tools and only with repressive tools? The same thing can be said for the traffic of desperate that come from the east, tied up in that dimension of the organized crime, to the great traffic, to the great commerce of drugs and human beings. In both the situations, Europe has to intervene. We are doing it: we will present within the end of the year an European document on the economic immigration, to say clearly that we have to receive those people whom respect our laws, those people who want to honestly work in the European countries: we have to integrate them in the spirit of solidarity on which Europe was born, on which Europe founds its rules; but what at the same time we have to have the firm hand, rigorous towards those that traffic in the human beings, that make him pay from poor desperate to accompany them toward the coasts of Sicily or Spain and that they surrender even then them to die in sea. The struggle to the traffic of human beings must be done with great severity, with great cooperation, with a joined patrol of the Mediterranean sea involving many countries and Europe. The new European Agency for the control of the frontiers, constituted in the end June, will become operational and within few weeks: it will be the engine of an integrated European action to defeat this illegal immigration that unfortunately is still growing. And we have to absolutely ask and rigorously the respect of some least standards, to which European people cannot abdicate: the full respect of the dignity of each individual, also an individual that tries to illegally enter and that therefore has to be accompanied again in his country: this is had to do respecting the humanity and the dignity of that person. We cannot have yeldings in this because we would abdicate to our values. But at the same time we have to say with absolute clarity that Europe cannot open the doors in indiscriminate way to those people that violate our laws, to those people who don't share the principle that the life of the each man is sacred, to those people that come in Europe to plot, to create cells tied up to the fundamentalism and the terrorism. We cannot allow all these things. So we will keep on working together, we will keep on working together as Europe, defining procedures for common repatriation that all the countries together promote and realize respecting the human people and because will be an exchange of information so that, if a terrorist suspect confuses himself in a boat of clandestine, he could be identified; but if clandestines arrive on the coasts of Malta or on the coasts of Sicily, in first place we have to receive them, picked, taken care of them and then repatriated. We will do it with a great program of cooperation with the bystander countries, countries of origin and countries of transit, as for example Libya, to which we will offer economic helps; but we will offer helps in exchange for rights, in exchange for a stronger collaboration to prevent and to oppose this sore of the traffic of human beings that so deeply touches our values.
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