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"Mr President, thank you for allowing me to take the floor after such a long and full debate. I believe that there is no doubt at all that the two reports we have seen today prove that we need a common policy on migration and asylum. I should like, in passing, to pay tribute to the Commissioner’s statement and to all the work that Parliament has carried out, which shows that we attach real importance to these issues, particularly in the current circumstances. I believe that here today we have been able to make our different views clear, and perhaps we have also made clear the difference between asylum and economic migration. I am not sure, however, that we have entirely avoided confused thinking.
On the subject of migratory flows and the right of asylum, we must make it clear, in the face of all opposition, that rights and obligations have to be shared, by both migrants and host Member States. We must not have a situation in which certain people can take advantage of the loopholes in our harmonisation in order to create an underclass of Europeans by introducing second-class workers or deferred citizenship. It seems to me to be important that the rights of workers, of whatever origin, should be asserted and given tangible expression in order to combat the trafficking in human beings, by which certain people exploit misery and distress.
As for our asylum policy, it will gain in terms of quality and justice if we can agree to recognise that it needs to be supplemented by other compulsory cooperation policies which enable everyone to live with dignity and self-respect in their own countries. In all cases, asylum policy should reject arbitrary criteria linked to the current situation. I should also like to ask, simply, that we should also give political rights to those whom we welcome for their work."@en1
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