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"Mr President, the large-scale misuse of asylum is a very serious problem in the European Union, and it would therefore be misplaced to discuss
the gender of angels. Indeed, a new directive should be laid down about standards for the recognition of the refugee status as soon as possible, and we should apply minimum criteria in this respect, whereby the Member States may, and can, apply stricter standards.
Europe should have specially adapted instruments at its disposal in order to get the asylum problem under control. In Belgium, for example, more than 98% of the asylum applications turn out to be unfounded. The handling of all those cases requires time, manpower and resources that cannot be used to deal with genuine cases. The resultant backlog means that even more files are not dealt with, and, eventually, in that residence permits are granted without any prior investigation. Such inefficiency and laxness only lead to a further influx of bogus asylum seekers. Resources should therefore be found in order to separate the wheat from the chaff, and the list of safe third countries is one of those. It is therefore surprising that the report should question the way in which the list of safe countries relates to the principle of the individual treatment as enshrined in the Geneva Treaty.
Well, it makes no sense whatsoever, on the one hand, to use a list of safe third countries and, on the other, to treat the files originating from those countries in exactly the same manner as the other files. We must have the courage to conclude and recognise that the Geneva Convention needs to be overhauled. This Convention dates back to 1951 and its principal object was to receive refugees from Communist dictatorships. It is a product of the Cold War, and no longer meets today’s needs. Not only should we have a list of safe countries, the principle of territoriality should also be included in it. The places best suited to receive asylum seekers are neighbouring countries in their own regions, so that Europe’s asylum policy is no longer misused on a large scale to circumvent the ban on immigration."@en1
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