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"Mr President, while stating that our Group is fully in agreement with the Evans report, I should, however, like to highlight two aspects. First, the procedure for examining refugee applications needs to be speeded up. Member States should be aware that many of their problems, but especially many of the immigrant refugees’ problems, would be overcome if these applications were dealt with quickly. A great many refugees – a great many people who have every right to be recognised as such – wait for months or years without receiving aid, deprived of work, gradually sliding towards illegality and often sucked into areas of organised and other crime. It is therefore necessary to shorten these excessively long time periods.
Secondly, it is important to understand and establish the fact that the notion of a ‘safe country’ is one that may be overturned by specific evidence of the treatment an individual receives in his or her country. I mean that the notion of a safe country must be a relative assumption, because many refugees flee from a safe country because they are personally persecuted. This notion must not, therefore, be an absolute notion, but the conditions to which the individual refugees have been subjected – in other words, the conditions that have led them to flee to another country – should be examined on a case-by-case basis, and they may lead to the above-mentioned notion of a safe third country being overturned."@en1
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