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Mr President, the Dublin system must be used to determine the Member State responsible for examining an asylum application. However, this system is deeply unjust. Asylum seekers can sometimes therefore be returned to a Member State which it is known will reject their asylum application whereas the Member State in which they are found would have granted them refugee status. This is the first injustice.
In addition, this system poses a problem of solidarity between Member States. It is well-known that Member States situated at the external borders of Europe bear a greater burden. On our return from Malta, we demanded that the very principle of the Dublin system be questioned. We believe that the Member State responsible for examining an asylum application should not necessarily be the first country entered. There must be solidarity in the examination of applications.
We have observed serious shortcomings, particularly with regard to the protection of unaccompanied minors. We have seen that Member States do not sufficiently use the instruments allowing minors to be reunited with members of their families present in another Member State. We also want minors to be able to join, for example, aunts and uncles in another Member State, rather than being left to their own devices. We must therefore extend the idea of the family.
Finally, we deplore the virtually systematic use by some Member States of the detention of people awaiting a Dublin transfer. We would point out that these people are applying for international protection and that their application has not yet been examined in detail. The evaluation of the Dublin II Regulation must therefore allow us to correct the serious shortcomings that we have observed during our visits to the detention centres. We have visited numerous detention centres and I must tell you that some of these visits have left us quite disgusted.
I must remind you that the aim of the Dublin Regulation is to determine the Member State responsible for examining the asylum application. The Regulation must allow access to the asylum system and must guarantee that a Member State carries out a detailed examination of every asylum application.
The European Union must not ignore its responsibility towards third countries. It must guarantee protection of the right of asylum."@en1
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