EU lawmakers clash over Tunisia migration deal, denounce lack of results

Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) clashed on Tuesday over the EU's controversial migration agreement with Tunisia.

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00:00 Migrants and refugees are haunted, brutalized and killed in Tunisia.

00:19 And until today, the deal has only led to more repression, more deaths and even more

00:24 migration.

00:26 We all remember the image of the dead body of a mother and her daughter in the desert,

00:32 paid for by European money.

00:35 This EU that does this, it's a lost EU, it's a decadent EU, it's an EU that does not stand

00:41 up for democracy and human rights.

00:43 The EU-Tunisia agreement is essential in order to retain a strict control of the EU border.

01:12 It's a false demand for asylum.

01:14 The best solution is to dissuade migrants from coming by showing them that they cannot

01:20 stay.

01:21 In the six weeks after the end of the agreement, the migration numbers from Tunisia to Europe

01:39 increased by 70%.

01:40 I don't think this agreement will work.

01:43 (upbeat music)