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"Mr President, I am very much in favour of respecting human dignity and international conventions and therefore giving due consideration to every request for asylum. I am also in favour of granting asylum to asylum seekers that meet the necessary conditions, and denying it to those who fail to do so. Particular care should be taken when children are involved. It should also be borne in mind, however, that there are few genuine asylum seekers. For instance, I have encountered many asylum seekers in Belgium, but none of them really met the relevant conditions. Indeed, genuine political activists tend to be reluctant to leave their country of origin because they feel they have a lot to do there.
Ninety per cent of the problem of asylum actually involves hidden immigration, the underlying reasons for which are not always economic. They tend to be psychological and humanitarian. Ladies and gentlemen, I suggest we admit these immigrants, but that we also recognise them for what they are. A clear distinction should be drawn between asylum and immigration, to allow us to deal more appropriately with requests for political asylum and to control immigration more effectively."@en1
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