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"We voted against the Evans report, which echoes the main Commission position on the common asylum procedure. Like the Commission, the rapporteur believes this procedure should be refocused towards giving greater right of asylum to applicants who want 'to find safety'.
We already established, at the last part-session, what practical consequences this policy would have, when we considered the Commission's proposal on minimum standards for the procedure for granting refugee status. It quite simply overlooks the fact that today the right of asylum is being distorted and manipulated to such an extent that it has become
if not
prime source of illegal immigration.
How many applications are unfounded? Probably nine out of ten. The Commission forgets these figures, just as it minimises the total number of applications, which it puts at 200 000 for the entire EU in 2000, while according to the figures we have it was as much as 375 000, counting only 10 out of the 15 EU countries! This underestimate is made deliberately. It allows the problem to be minimised. In fact it is immense.
The member countries must not accept the Commission's proposals, for they would constrain them to observe a common procedure that would start out flexible, only to become increasingly rigid, as is clearly stated on page 8 of the communication. That procedure would end up by granting unlimited rights of asylum and, in addition, broaden the concept of ‘refugee’ set out in the 1951 convention by extending it to other forms of temporary protection. All this is totally ill-timed.
The Commission would do better to present us with proposals for establishing a policy on the return of applicants whose claim has been rejected. It would also do better to present us with proposals aimed at giving priority to assisting refugees in their region of origin."@en1
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