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"Mr President, in a statement made 61 years ago, EU founding father Robert Schuman said that, with increased resources, Europe could – as he said then – fulfil one of its essential tasks, namely the development of the African continent.
I mention this particular statement because today, unfortunately, we have not fulfilled this historic obligation either towards Africa or towards other less developed countries plagued by constant outbreaks of violence and conflict, which is where the refugees come from.
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees noted in his most recent report that there had been a 17% increase in the number of asylum applications in the developed countries in the second half of this year alone. Therefore, Europe has a big responsibility and specific resources are needed, as Robert Schuman said at the time, so that we can respond to these needs. We need specific political instruments at our disposal for this purpose.
The agreement in principle with the Council on the directive we are debating today, to safeguard minimum requirements for the recognition of beneficiaries of international protection is, of course, a balanced, positive and encouraging directive and, as such, the rapporteur certainly deserves congratulations for her supreme efforts. I too would remind the House, as Mr Díaz de Mera said earlier, that our group did not vote in favour of the report in the first stage in committee; now, however, we too are in the fortunate position of being able to vote in favour of it.
However, from now on, if we are to be able to bring about the desired results, if we are to be able to provide protection to our fellow men and to implement the vision of the founding fathers of the Union, we need high-level application, as we heard earlier, solidarity, fair burden-sharing and an integrated asylum package, which we trust will be ready by 2012.
That is the only way we shall be able to respond to real needs; that is the only way – I repeat, with solidarity and burden-sharing – that we shall be able to deal with the serious problems which my country, Greece, as Ms Tzavela said earlier, is currently facing."@en1
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