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"en.20041013.6.3-142"2
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"I should like to turn to the issue of asylum policy in the context of the new Member States. The European Union’s enlargement in 2004 was accompanied by a significant rise in applications for asylum in the new Member States. According to the predictions of the UN High Commissioner for refugees, who recently paid a study visit to Poland, Slovakia and Hungary, numbers will continue to rise at the present rate in these countries for at least the next few years. For example, following the escalation of the conflict in the North Caucasus, Poland is currently accepting the largest number of Chechen refugees. Since mid-September their number has risen by several hundred per cent. Every day, around 50 Chechen citizens cross Poland’s eastern border. Most of them are mothers with children, and a great many are unaccompanied children. Work on a common asylum policy needs to be stepped up, and measures should and must be taken to set up a joint funding mechanism based on solidarity between Member States, as well as an organisational mechanism for the integration of persons granted refugee status. An integrated system for border management and the European Agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the External Borders also need to be created rapidly. The Agency should commence its activities as soon as possible in order to establish common standards for protection of the European Union’s external borders. The most suitable place for the Agency to be located is Poland, as Poland has the longest land border in the European Union."@en1
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