Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-09-27-Speech-2-029"

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dcterms:Date	"2005-09-27"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Procedures in Member States for granting and withdrawing refugee status2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20050927.4.2-029"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2005-09-27-Speech-2-0302
lpv:speaker	lp:Claudio Fava2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 substitute; LIBE (2004-12-20--2007-01-14)3 substitute; AFET (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; PES (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 vice-chair; REGI (2004-07-23--2007-01-14)3 substitute; DROI (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 substitute; PECH (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 unknown; Democratici di Sinistra (2004-07-21--2008-02-18)3 member; Delegation for relations with the countries of the Andean Community (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I thank the rapporteur for the excellent work he has done and the Commission for this proposal, which we consider an honest attempt to harmonise the treatment of asylum seekers across the European Union. This proposal is benefiting today from the European Parliament’s contribution and efforts, so that we can realign ourselves with the spirit of the Tampere Council, which has been mentioned several times today, and also so as to overthrow the primacy of fear as the only political element, the only criterion for action in our policies on immigration and the right to asylum. Now, however, it is important to oversee the implementation of the directive as amended and to ensure that it really does become the new Europe-wide legislation that is implemented in all our countries. Above all, with regard to the new definition of a safe third country, we must avoid – if I may say so, Mr President – certain fanciful interpretations that we have heard today from the benches on the right: a safe third country for us means adopting a European list of safe countries, and adopting it under the responsibility of Parliament as a party in the codecision procedure. Objective, precise conditions are needed: precisely the opposite of what is happening today. Thousands of migrants leave Lampedusa to be expelled and sent to Libya, which is anything but a safe country, Mrs Klamt; and when people are sent from the United Kingdom to Iraq, they are going to a country that is anything but a safe third country. It is also a case of changing the function of Parliament. Today we are not offering the Council a polite suggestion; instead, we are calling for clear, strict and responsible rules. To conclude, I believe that the basic problem is to make the Council and all the European institutions understand that Europe today cannot simply look after itself, but that it must instead look after the rights of those who are now suffering the violence of war and the humiliation of persecution. In view of all that, we must ask ourselves whether the problem is that we receive the asylum applications or rather whether the problem is the war and persecution from which those refugees are fleeing. Even before we put it to the European institutions, that is a question that we should put to our own consciences."@en1

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