Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-04-25-Speech-4-028"
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"Mr President, the right to asylum is a sacrosanct principle of universal law which is acknowledged by all the civilised people in Europe and in the world, but it must be regulated thoroughly if it is not to lose its importance and meaning. Those who wish to extend it – and I refer to those who voted through a large number of amendments to the text proposed by the Commission in the Committee on Citizens’ Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs – are certainly not doing any kind of service to the principle of the right to asylum by extending it indiscriminately to people who, in actual fact, are not really entitled to it. I refer, in particular, to Amendment No 14, which seeks to eliminate provision for specific penalties, namely the reducing or withdrawing of reception conditions in the event of an observed infringement of the reception system, and also to a set of amendments – Nos 19, 21, 22, 23 and 34 – seeking to extend the scope of the directives to people requesting protection for reasons other than those listed in the Geneva Convention. Do we actually want to reintroduce asylum for economic and social refugees? If we do that, we will be letting at least a billion people into Europe!"@en1
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