Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-09-27-Speech-2-025"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2005-09-27"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Procedures in Member States for granting and withdrawing refugee status2
dcterms:Language	"el"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20050927.4.2-025"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2005-09-27-Speech-2-0262
lpv:speaker	lp:Athanasios Pafilis2
lpv:spokenAs	member; EUL/NGL (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; AFET (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the countries of the Andean Community (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 unknown; Kommounistiko Komma Elladas (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; LIBE (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; SEDE (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; Delegation for relations with the countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the directive on minimum standards for granting refugee status being debated today also revises and abolishes legislatively any protection which existed for refugees on the basis of the Geneva Convention and the Dublin II Regulation. Of course, the Council has already agreed and, from one point of view, the debate being held here is entirely cosmetic. The directive follows on from the overall anti-refugee policy of the European Union because, as you know, the percentage of applicants granted refugee status has plummeted in the European Union over recent years. In Greece, for example, it is less than 1% of applicants and last year the number of asylum applications plummeted. Maintaining the concept of a safe to super safe third country, which means repatriation to it without the application being examined, refusing in practice the right to asylum and imprisoning immigrants pending a decision by the authorities demonstrate the European Union’s indifference. A great deal has been said about the humanitarianism of the European Union. It is hugely ironic: on the one hand you unleash wars and plunder countries in the developing world and, on the other hand, you pretend that you pity the victims of this policy. We consider that the amendments by the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, with the exception of the amendments by the Confederal Group of the European United Left/Nordic Green Left, are gratuitously critical of the directive in that, to all intents and purposes, they accept the basic anti-refugee approach. The only democratic proposal is to withdraw the directive."@en1

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