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Home affairs EU Commissioner-designate, Malmstrom to EuroFora: How to fight v. (in)Human Trafficking

Written by ACM
Tuesday, 19 January 2010

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A multi-facet approach, using various converging means at the same time, is needed in order for the EU to succeed to win the battle against the inhuman scourge of massive "Trafficking" of persons smuggled into the EU by networks which often exploit people's dramas from poor Countries, Cecilia Malmstrom, Sweden's Minister for EU affairs, and current EU Commissioner-designate for Home affairs, said to "EuroFora" after her Hearing at EU Parliament in Strasbourg.


Malmstrom's domain of competence as future EU Commissioner covers a wide are of issues extending from "Police, Asylum, Migration, and TransBorder Crime" up to "Human Trafficking", etc. as she confirmed to "EuroFora".


Questioned by "EuroFora" whether she hoped to succesfully curb the currently growing problems of (in) Human Trafficking, often massive and sometimes organized, apparently not only for Socio-Economic but also Political issues, as fex. in EU's South-East, as in Cyprus, from the Turkish Occupied Territories, as well as towards Greece, Italy, Malta, France, Spain, etc, but also allover Northern and Central EU's Eastern borders, even, if at a slightly less grave level, (as Sweden has often, denounced, including, fex. murdered former Prime Minister, Olaf Palme's Wife, earlier at the CoE in Strasbourg), Malmstom appeared resourceful :


- "Yes", she optimistically replied to "EuroFora".  "We (EU) have to fight against Human Trafficking : We (EU) shall strengthen FrontEx" (EU's External Borders' watchdog), we will work with 3rd Countries (fex. Turkey, Libya, Ukraine, etc), we will work in ReSettlement programmes,  we shall work with Capacity-Building for EU Member States to build up their possibilities to receive people, and we shall also have to work on Legal ways for People to comme to Europe".


- 'And, of course, the big Global dimension,working together on (Economic) Development and Democracy" is important, Malmstrom added to "EuroFora", showing a larger, overall point of view.

 

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"Establishing common EU Policies in the Future on "Law Enforcement cooperation, Migration and Asylum", etc. is a way "to respond to expectations of EU Citizens in tackling common challenges", reiterated Malmstrom earlier  to MEPs, building on the recent experience of the 2009 adoption of EU's "Stockholm programme", on the occasion of the outgoing Swedish EU Presidency.


An amusing (particularly for the President of "Green" MEPs, Cohn-Bendit), but perhaps Symbolic detail is that Cecilia Malmstrom, who will take over Police and Public Order issues, according to her official CV, was born on ... "May 1968" !


As for European Journalists who know Malmstrom since a long time ago, already when she was a Liberal MEP in EU Parliament, (including "EuroFora"), will certainly follow with great interest what will do as EU head on Security matters a European Politician who has been seriously committed in the Past on Press and Freedom of Expression issues...

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(Opinion).

 In Democracy, the forthcoming choices for EU's Top Jobs, as the New EU Parliament's President, new EU Commission's President (+ probably EU Council's President, EU Foreign Minister, etc) should be made according to EU Citizens' Votes in June 7, 2009 European Elections, and main EU Governments' strategic policies.

At the heart of the biggest EU Countries, in France and Germany, EU Citizens clearly voted for a renovated, non-technocratic but Political Europe based on Values, declared explicitly incompatible with Turkey's controversial EU bid.

This main choice was also supported in several other small or medium EU Countries, such as Austria (cf. promise of a Referendum), Spain (cf. EPP program's reservations vis a vis Enlargment), etc., while EPP Parties won also in Poland, Hungary, Cyprus, etc.

In other Countries, whenever Governing coalitions didn't make these choices or eluded them, continuing to let a Turkish lobby push for its entry into the EU, they paid a high price, and risked to damage Europe, by obliging EU Citizens to massively vote for euro-Sceptics whenever they were the only ones to offer a possibility to promise  real change and oppose Turkey's demand to enter into the EU :

It's for this obvious reason that British UKIP (IndDem) succeeded now (after many statements against Turkey's EU bid) to become Great Britain's 2nd Party, unexpectedly growing bigger even than the Governing Labour Party, as well as the Liberal party  ! Facts prove that it's not an isolated phenomenon : A similar development occured in the Netherlands, where Geert Wilders "Party for Freedom" (PVV) became also the 2nd biggest in the country, (after EPP), boosting the chances of a politician who had withdrawn in 2004 from an older party "because he didn't agree with their position on Turkey". And in several other EU Member Countries, even previously small parties which now focused on a struggle against Turkey's controversial demand to enter in the EU, won much more or even doubled the number of their MEPs (fex. Bulgaria, Hungary, Greece, etc).

On the contrary, whenever Socialist and oher parties were explicitly or implicitly for Turkey's controversial EU bid, they obviously lost Citizens' votes and fell down to an unprecedented low.

In consequence, EU Citizens clearly revealed their main political choices, in one way or another : They voted to change for less Bureaucracy, but more Politics and Values in a Europe really open to EU Citizens, but without Turkey's controversial EU bid.

Recent political developments are obviously different from the old political landscape which existed in the Past of 1999-2004, when Socialists based on Turkish 1% vote governed undisputed not only in Germany, but also in the UK, Greece and elsewhere, France followed old policies decided when it had been divided by "cohabitation", before the 3 "NO" to EU  Referenda since May 2005, before Merkel, before Sarkozy, etc.... before the surprises of 7 June 2009 new EU Elections.

If the current candidates to the Top EU jobs promise and guarantee to respect People's democratic choices, OK.

Otherwise, Europe must find new candidates, really motivated and able to implement these democratic choices of the People.

The beginning of crucial, final Decisions are scheduled for the 1st EU Parliament's plenary session in Strasbourg, in the middle of July, and they could be completed towards the October session, when Lisbon Treaty's fate will have been fixed.


See relevant Facts also at : http://www.eurofora.net/newsflashes/news/2009electionsandturkey.html
http://www.eurofora.net/newsflashes/news/daulelections.html
http://www.eurofora.net/brief/brief/euroelectionresult.html

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