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Title: Graham Watson (ALDE) on migration View count: 60 Rating: 5.0 (2 ratings) Description: Graham Watson, Leader of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Group, talks about migration. "Many people are worried about migration. They see television pictures of hordes of people coming across the Mediterranean in small boats and they worry about somehow being overrun by migrants. What they fail to realise is that unless people have a chance of a decent life where they come from, many of them will get up and move in search of a good life, just as our forefathers did when we peopled America and Canada, Australia and so on. The real challenge in dealing with the questions of population movement is dealing with the conflict and the disease and the environment devastation that affect so many countries in Africa, in Asia and elsewhere. And the less we really get ontop of the developpement agenda, giving people in all countries of the world a decent standard of living and hope of a better chance for their children, then we will continue to see movements of greater numbers of people than would otherwise be necessary. Of course it's true that we need a certain number of migrants to pick our crops, to drive our trucks, to staff our carehomes and so on. We have a population of under 5 hundred million and shriking but at the same time we need to work together with the countries of origin of the people who come here to try to provide for their people a better life. Liberal-Democrats think this is one of the most important priorities for the European Union and we will continue to work on it in the next European Parliament." Tags: leader, of, the, alliance, liberals, and, democrats, for, europe, group, climate, change, graham, watson, euronews, questions, european, elections, financial, crise, democratic, deficit, energy, dependence, migration, Author: questionsforeurope |
