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"Mr President, the Marinho report on asylum systems in Europe seems to me to miss the point. What in fact was the question asked? It was first and foremost a matter of what response should be given to the report presented by the British Government to the European Council in spring last year entitled ‘New international approaches to asylum processing and protection’. This report, which made a good deal of sense, posed the huge question as to the need to regain control of asylum systems which are currently creaking under the pressure of immense migratory flows. It was followed by a communication from the Commission making simple questions complex and confusing the issue with the title ‘Towards more accessible, equitable and managed asylum systems’, which utterly twists the meaning of the British report. It is remarkable that the European Parliament report being examined today makes frequent reference to the Commission communication, but does not even mention the British Government’s report in its citations. Such disdain for a Member State strikes me as scarcely tolerable. I shall, therefore, base my remarks on this report.
It makes four points: one, financial aid to refugees is poorly distributed; two, the current asylum system is of no benefit to the great majority of refugees, the most vulnerable, who are still in place with little protection; three, the very great majority of asylum seekers in the European Union do not meet the criteria needed to obtain the status of refugee or additional protection; four, those denied the right of asylum usually stay here illegally without being sent back to their countries of origin.
Faced with these challenges, the British report asks in particular for the creation of protection zones in the regions of origin in order to provide accessible refuges and the establishment of transit processing centres outside the EU, where the refugees admitted could be offered access to the participating countries and the others would be sent back to their countries of origin. The report submitted to us today is no more than evasive in its response to these questions and proposals. In particular, in its paragraph 16, it rejects the idea of protection zones or transit centres outside the EU as not offering sufficient protection, and, in paragraph 8, it proposes, as a response to the multiplication of false applications for asylum, expanding the possibilities for legal immigration, which – as Mr Marinho has just pointed out – would in actual fact be an even worse remedy.
Overall, Mr President, this report does not seem to have taken account of either the dramatic problem faced by our societies, whose survival is now at stake, or the need for in-depth revision of our asylum procedures and for our efforts to be directed, as a matter of priority, towards the political stabilisation and economic development of the countries from which these people are driven, in their despair, to emigrate."@en1
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