Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-04-11-Speech-2-095"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-04-11"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Vote2
dcterms:Language	"de"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000411.4.2-095"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-04-11-Speech-2-0962
lpv:speaker	lp:Ilka Schröder2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; ECON (1999-07-22--2001-09-27)3,3 member; G/EFA (1999-07-20--2001-09-27)3,3 member; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3,3 unknown; Bündnis 90/die Grünen (1999-07-20--2000-08-31)3,3 member; Delegation for relations with the Palestinian Legislative Council (1999-09-28--2002-01-14)3,3
lpv:translated text	"If the purpose of creating a European Refugee Fund were to make asylum and refugee policy in the Member States of the Union more humane and open, then it would be a welcome step. The Fund, which is merely the product of a combination of three budgetary lines, will not do this. There is evidence in addition to the debate as to what the creation of the European Refugee Fund really means. It means “distributing the burden”. An approach whereby immigrants entering the EU in search of protection are seen as a “burden” which has to be “distributed” is fundamentally flawed. No policy which takes humane account of the needs of persons fleeing persecution can be constructed on such a basis. The policy of the Member States and of the Union is geared towards heading off and turning away refugees, as the recent inclusion of a “re-adoption” clause in the Lomé Convention demonstrates. If this is what the outlines of European asylum and refugee policy really look like and if refugees are seen as a “burden”, then creating a Refugee Fund is a cosmetic exercise designed to hide the real face of a European policy of turning refugees away. The Fund will not, in this form, cause any country to switch to a policy of greater openness towards the immigration of refugees. Nor will it improve the legal security of persons fleeing persecution and in search of protection. But it is precisely the legal security and the right of participation of refugees, which must be considered. The European Union calls throughout the world for freedom of movement for capital. But it is reducing the freedom of movement of persons yet further by closing borders and cutting itself off from refugees and asylum seekers. Every year many refugees die, killed on the external borders of the EU. To assume in these circumstances that creating a Refugee Fund will make for a more humane asylum and refugee policy is an illusion, which is why I have abstained."@en1

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