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"Mr President, ever since 1999, the EU Member States have been talking about establishing a common European asylum system. The commitment to have this in place by 2012 has been made time and again. I regret the fact that, despite this, several of the asylum reports are stuck in the Council and the process is going extremely slowly. I welcome the fact that the Polish Presidency has now breathed new life into the negotiations and I hope that its good example will be followed by the forthcoming Danish Presidency.
It is very good that Parliament is now voting through the first of the asylum reports, concerning the Qualification Directive. I would like to say a big and heartfelt thank you to the rapporteur, Ms Lambert, who has done an impressive job on this report. It is my hope that the adoption of this directive will provide the necessary boost to the remaining negotiations on the reports that are still outstanding, for example on the Dublin II Regulation, for which I am rapporteur. I have high expectations of both the Polish and the Danish Presidencies.
There remains solidarity with those who flee and are forced to make their way to Europe and solidarity between our Member States when it comes to taking responsibility for those refugees who reach our continent. Solidarity is a linchpin and a platform on which we must build our cooperation.
The Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe and our rapporteur Nadja Hirsch (who is unfortunately not well today) welcome the fact that a compromise has been reached between the institutions concerning the correlation tables. Parliament would like to include such a reference in order to oblige the Member States to demonstrate the implementation of all EU directives in their national systems. Even though we would like to establish clearer requirements for Member States to use these tables, we welcome the compromise that has been reached.
The adoption of the Qualification Directive will send a positive message concerning the future asylum package. It is very significant that, after our hard work, we are taking a big step forward by adopting this first directive. I would urge all of those involved to continue to work towards compromises so that we can keep to the timetable we have set ourselves and deliver a common system by 2012.
With that, I would like to thank Ms Lambert once again for her splendid work and wish all of us luck with the enormous amount of work that still remains to be done."@en1
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