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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, it is true that a step – a major step – has been taken towards the creation of a common asylum system in the European Union, and like my fellow Members, I hope that the adoption of this report will give a definite boost to the negotiations on the other topics of the asylum package that are still being held up.
Like most of my colleagues, I hope that Cecilia Malmström will summon a great deal of courage – something that she does not lack – in order to make progress with this set of measures, and at the same time I wish to extend my heartfelt thanks to our rapporteur for the huge amount of work she has done.
As I said, a whole series of advances have been made. I shall emphasise just three of them. The first is the merging of the two types of status, that of refugee and that of beneficiary of subsidiary protection, even though I regret that some disparities still remain, especially regarding residence permits and access to social protection, but this harmonisation will come in due course.
The second notable advance – and all afternoon we have debated rights and child protection in other reports – is the very positive provisions concerning children, including the rights of unaccompanied minors and in particular the granting of international protection, since these minors are clearly often in a very vulnerable situation.
Finally, I am also pleased that the inclusion of gender identity and sexual orientation as grounds for persecution is a key element of the text.
In the face of world movements, of migratory flows, implementing the right to asylum is more urgent than ever. That is why we need a common European right to asylum as soon as possible, because the interests of these people, of asylum seekers, of stateless people, are at stake, of course, but, above all, so are the interests of the Member States. It is important to point this out at a time when we are seeing, in all the topics we are dealing with, withdrawal and selfishness, particularly in relation to those States at the external borders of the European Union, who are under immense pressure, as our Greek fellow Member has just explained so well.
Finally, in order to summarise my point, allow me to quote, at this late hour, the philosopher Kant: ‘The right of a foreigner [is] not to be treated with hostility because he has arrived on the land of another.’"@en1
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