Ahead the plenary session in Strasbourg, Roberta METSOLA, EP President, gives her opening remarks on the migrants' deaths in Italy. This transcription is a result of an automatic process. Please check against delivery.

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migration and refugees in Europe (T)

Immigration (T2)

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METSOLA, Roberta (EPP, MT, EP President)

EU - Italy (T)

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Resumption of session and order of business: introductory remarks by Roberta METSOLA, EP President, on the migrants' deaths in Italy

SOUNDBITE (English), Roberta METSOLA, EP President, One final appeal. We must resist being or becoming desensitised to the tragedy. We cannot allow more people to become nameless statistics. And we must no longer accept that the Mediterranean Sea remains a cemetery of broken lives and broken hope.

SOUNDBITE (English), Roberta METSOLA, EP President, Our Parliament has managed to find a way forward on migration that is just and humane with those in need of protection, that is fair and firm with those who are not eligible, and that is stronger with those traffickers preying off the most vulnerable and profiting from human desperation. We now need all players to match that ambition and live up to the promise of our Union.

SOUNDBITE (English), Roberta METSOLA, EP President, The last weeks have also seen more lives lost at sea, more dreams forever broken, more mothers and fathers who will never hear from their children. More children, women and men who died in desperate circumstances. Again, we have a duty. We have a responsibility to address this issue. We are the generation of politicians who cannot ignore this reality.

Resumption of session and order of business: introductory remarks by Roberta METSOLA, EP President, on the migrants' deaths in Italy

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