Brussels, 10/07/2006 (Agence Europe) - According to several members of the EPP-ED group at the European Parliament, the EU is not doing enough to help southern European Member States affected by legal immigration. During a press conference on 6 July in Strasbourg, Ewa Klamt (Germany) declared, “we have a mutual responsibility in this Europe without borders”. She pointed out that thousands of people have arrived over recent months in Lampedusa, Ceuta Melilla and Malta and had been put into retention centres, from which some had tried to escape in an effort to avoid being sent back. Simon Busuttil referred to the 500 people arriving on the Maltese coast, which was the equivalent of 100,000 immigrants arriving in a country like Germany. He explained that they needed to think about emergency measures to deal with this humanitarian tragedy because the summer was just the start of it all. He added that he was still awaiting the arrival of sea patrols promised by the Commission. In the context of the Canary Islands, Fernando Fernandez Martin (Spain) underlined that Frontext was just at project stage. Stefano Zappala (Italy warned against the effects of uncontrolled immigration by highlighting the case of Malta, where xenophobic feelings were beginning to be expressed by the local people.