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"Madam President, the pictures we have seen in recent days from Afghanistan are of course clear evidence that the problem does not go away but that the flow of refugees unfortunately continues as a direct result of the policy we are pursuing here in our part of the world. I hear quite a few people talking about a common European asylum policy. Indeed, that might well be a very sensible idea, but I want, for my part, to say that the prerequisite for my being able to support it is that it should be a sound policy. The rapporteur originally tried to word this report in such a way that it restricted asylum seekers’ rights and opportunities in our countries. What the committee finally agreed upon was to require that we should end up with a policy which, if anything, amounted to the status quo. I think it would be a good thing if the European Parliament could send out a clear signal now that, if there is to be a common asylum policy in the EU, it must in no circumstances be a policy that provides asylum seekers with poorer conditions than those under which they are at present living in the Member States. I very much hope that the result of the vote we are to hold this afternoon will be to send out such a signal."@en1

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