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We are today examining a proposal for a Council regulation establishing the criteria and mechanisms for determining the Member State responsible for examining an asylum application. The regulation takes over the existing provisions of the Dublin Convention and improves upon them. This receives our approval, because it is the result of a rigorous approach, where the Commission worked in close collaboration with national experts.
The fundamental principle has been maintained, whereby the Member State of first entry is responsible for processing the asylum application, but an additional principle has been added: each Member State is answerable to all the others for its actions concerning the entry and residence of third-country nationals and should, in a spirit of solidarity and responsibility, assume the consequences thereof. For example, when illegal immigrants apply for asylum in a Member State although they have previously stayed illegally in another, the latter must process the asylum application and it cannot shirk from this responsibility. These provisions will obviously be applied in the case of France, which is allowing illegal immigrants to gather in Sangatte and the surrounding area, immigrants who then attempt to apply for asylum in Great Britain.
Several amendments to this proposal for a regulation were tabled by the highly active group of pro-immigration MEPs of the extreme Left. The majority was fortunately rejected. Some questionable amendments were adopted however, which explains why we had reservations with regard to the Marinho report."@en1
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