I'm from Luxembourg and I was a minister for many things for education
research culture public works religion I was in the European Parliament one term
and I was president of the Luxembourg Parliament well first thing that Europe
has missed Europe has set up in 2004 an agency called Frontex that was meant to
take care of those people who were both people and who are bought from Africa by
illegal persons and to control the borders the borders of Europe the outside
border should be controlled by the EU by this agency Frontex we are not capable
to do it now because there is such a big rush of migrants and refugees and we
have to make a difference between migrants and refugees refugees have a legal
status according to Geneva Convention and as people are mixed up so the
controlling at the outside borders is very difficult for the administration of the
countries but I think in this sense there could be a change if it was done in
common so look at the outside borders and have care for people coming in and have
care from people staying outside so we could have camps outside of the outside
borders of the EU instead of leaving the people to countries like Turkey Jordan and
also Lebanon that's one thing but so many problems at the origin of this migration are situated in
development in climate change we will have many more refugees from climate change from
all these countries being flooded by the climate change and so we have to
be prepared to make a better distribution among the European Union and among the
member states and their solidarity is lacking for the moment I think it's not
basically the refusal of the people but it's the lack of capacity of handling the
of a flux of these people and so what is happening in the country sometimes people are staying one two three
years in retention camps that are not prisons but nearly like prisons in order to have
their administrative problems settled that's unacceptable so we have also to deal
with this problem