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"I endorse the European Commission plan's to relocate 160,000 refugees, and for a complete review the rules governing asylum seeker requests. In contrast to the spontaneous acts of individual citizens’ generosity as this humanitarian crisis unfolds, we have had to shame many EU national governments into behaving with a modicum of decency. Just look at the pressure that poorer neighbouring countries to Syria are bearing from the influx of refugees. The only thing that compares, over here in Europe, is the exaggeration over the magnitude of the inflows we receive. The Dublin asylum system has become a byword for the worst kind of nimybism, where Governments refuse to assume responsibility because of an accident of geography, when the lives of people fleeing war are at stake. We need to issue humanitarian visas for Syrian refugees. We must scrap our current approach in favour of rules that ensure a fair distribution of refugees, while preventing the break-up of families in times of crisis. The Juncker Commission is showing leadership and is willing to address these structural flaws in the long term, yet even these timid steps, in the face of urgent humanitarian needs, are being resisted by many EU Member States."@en1
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