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"Mr President, the Dublin II system for granting asylum should, at long last, be revised. Firstly, it is not truly European: it does not guarantee genuine solidarity and support for those Member States that receive a disproportionate number of asylum seekers owing to their geographical location.
The second and more important reason why it should be revised is that such disproportionate numbers often directly threaten the humanitarian principles and the obligation to treat people arriving at our borders in search of protection with dignity.
We know that occasionally many Member States are either perfectly reasonably unable to fulfil their obligations according to the regulation or, in the worst case, they hide behind a lack of European solidarity to justify even extreme violations of human rights committed by their authorities.
Practices such as detaining minors in unacceptable conditions and the wholesale rejection of asylum applications on political grounds are not justified by any lack of solidarity. We also know, however, that other Member States that do not face such problems consider their humanitarian obligation fulfilled if they accuse other states. We hear nothing about solidarity, however.
Thus Dublin II has in practice led to a series of accusations and counter-accusations between Member States. The only real losers are the asylum seekers. It is therefore of crucial importance to establish a genuine common European asylum system."@en1
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