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"Mr President, I wish to thank the rapporteur, Mr Kreissl-Dörfler, for a constructive report. It is important for us all to work towards the same goal: that the EU should, in the long run, conduct a policy on refugees and asylum that is the same for everyone everywhere.
Rules concerning safe or very safe countries give rise to a disturbing and unclear legal picture and lead to refugees being treated differently in different countries. My own country, Sweden, does not apply general rules or the concepts of ‘safe countries of origin’ and ‘safe third countries’. Instead, we see all refugees as individuals and consider each of them on an individual basis. A Member State can then assess refugees’ individual histories and their need to have their reasons considered. A country may be safe for a group, collectively, but be impossible for an individual or family to return to, precisely because the person or people concerned may have been politically active in union work or belong to a non-governmental organisation engaged in activities that incur disapproval.
I naturally also view with unease the fact that, in both international contexts and the EU, children’s and young people’s age of majority is tampered with. No one is grown up at the age of 16, either in these or in other cases. I hope that, with the help of this report, we shall make some headway in the process that, in time, should provide us with a common policy on refugees and asylum in the EU. That is what people in the EU want us to do because they want to see the EU as a single entity."@en1
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