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In general, we have to conclude that the report is in many areas a vast improvement on the Commission proposal. During Mrs Liotard’s visit to the Italian refugee camp on the island of Lampedusa on 27 and 28 June 2005, she was able to see for herself how important it is for refugees to have specific rights. If an EU Treaty can do something to improve the situation of those people, then we are in favour of such improvement. We still have major misgivings about some sections of the Commission proposal, though, including, for example, the concept of ‘safe third countries’. We have, unfortunately, been obliged to choose between the devil and the deep blue sea, so, despite these concerns, we will nevertheless vote in favour of the amended proposal, because it can vastly improve the position of asylum seekers, because Amnesty International was relatively positive about it, and because we hope that it will put an end to the disgraceful Lampedusas of Europe."@en1
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