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"en.20010313.11.2-124"2
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"We have voted against Mr Kirkhope’s report on carriers’ liability and call upon the French Republic to withdraw its initiative regarding penalties for carriers transporting passengers with inadequate travel documentation. The Council’s initiative is another in the series of fragmented proposals aimed only at excluding people from entering the European Union.
For us, it is unthinkable that the Member States’ responsibility for checking passports should be transferred to private transport companies. It is unfair that check-in staff at airports and at harbours, air stewardesses or ticket collectors should instead be given the right to decide who should be granted entry to the European Union. That is precisely what the result will be if the rules of the Schengen Convention and Mr Kirkhope’s proposal regarding penalties are put into practice.
The right to asylum under the Geneva Convention must be a cornerstone both of Schengen cooperation and of the EU’s common refugee and immigration policy. The severe sanctions proposed by the Council constitute a significant threat to the right of asylum. The many people who at present succeed in fleeing from war and oppression and arriving at the EU’s external borders would never succeed in entering the EU if new or increased penalties were to be imposed upon transporters.
Free movement within the European Union must not be implemented at the cost of the EU’s erecting barriers against the surrounding world. Continued cooperation within the Schengen framework and the common immigration and asylum policy must be characterised by the European tradition of a generous refugee policy in which the right to asylum is guaranteed."@en1
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