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"On the pretext of trying to simplify asylum rules and procedures, Brussels is in the process of creating a whole legal arsenal designed to overwhelm Europe.
This draft contains a whole litany of proposals, each more pro-immigration and subversive than the one before. They want to make it easier to gain legal access to European Union territory for nationals of non-EU countries for the purposes of employment and family reunification, to make it impossible to authorise collective expulsions, to provide for joint management of migratory flows and for distribution of the (immigration) burden within the European Union, and so on. In other words, we are being asked to allow the Commission to impose immigration quotas on each Member State!
We are surely in agreement on one point, namely the need to reform our asylum laws. Throughout Europe, the present asylum system is in the throes of a crisis.
France, Britain, Italy and Germany have been inundated by the mass influx of asylum-seekers fleeing their countries of origin for economic reasons and not because of political persecution, as provided for in the Geneva Convention of 28 July 1951 relating to the Status of Refugees.
The solution does not lie in a broader and more permissive redefinition of the right of asylum; quite the contrary. Let us not offer impossible and dangerous dreams to all these unfortunate people who seek a hypothetical El Dorado."@en1
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