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"Mr President, we all acknowledge that there have been two problems in the achievement of common asylum and immigration policies: lack of speed and lack of balance.
On the speed problem, there has been a spurt on asylum policy under the Danish presidency. I too pay tribute to the energy of Mr Haarder. However, on the question of balance, I still feel very frustrated that legal migration and rights of migrants have been neglected.
There is so much criticism of migrants who fail to integrate, but little is done to assist them through, for example, family reunification or rights of free movement. Let us take, for example, the reception conditions directive which highlights the classic danger of the ‘lowest common denominator’ approach imposed by the unanimity rule. This is not Mr Haarder’s fault. After apparent agreement on the text last April, debate was reopened. The result was that the Germans got their way, and consequently there is no requirement to allow asylum seekers to work if a decision on their case is not forthcoming within a year. The British have got their way in that Member States will be allowed to refuse reception assistance where the asylum seeker cannot show that he has made his claim as soon as possible. If there was qualified majority voting and codecision with this Parliament, neither clause – I am sure – would be in this text since a more progressive majority would have prevailed.
On the question of return, are we forcing women to return to Afghanistan, to an environment described by Human Rights Watch as being just as oppressive as it was under the Taliban? Spied on by teenage boys, women are marched to hospital and forced to undergo abusive gynaecological examinations to prove their chastity. They still have to wear the burkha, which is medieval. I suggest that we cannot guarantee the security of women returned to Afghanistan.
I would like assurance that we are not returning women to Afghanistan."@en1
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