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"Madam President, to begin with I would like to thank the European Asylum Support Office which has now started to take highly efficient measures, to give serious help to Greece and to play a very effective role, in particular with regard to what many Members have just called for, in other words, providing reasonable asylum accommodation. A few days ago the Greek Parliament decided that additional accommodation which meets European standards should be built. The European Union will or should give support for this, with the help of the European Asylum Support Office.
I believe it is important that we in this Chamber do not constantly talk only about the dreadful things that have happened or the difficulties. Instead we should make it quite clear what we want to do and explain that we are not demanding that Greece comes up with a perfect solution overnight, given its disastrous internal situation. We will be applying realistic standards to the country and to what it is able to achieve. I also think it is sensible that many countries have stopped returning refugees and will continue to do so in future.
Secondly, it seems to me to be important for us to extend our cooperation with Turkey. Ms Malmström has said that we are making an effort to do this. I think that amalgamating visa policy and return policy will cause significant problems. However, one possibility might be not to opt for the larger framework for visa policy, but instead to focus only on students and those in similar situations, including business people. This could be a solution for the countries which may currently still have difficulties in this area. Thirdly, we should agree on cooperation between police forces with regard to returning refugees, because this is about combating criminal people traffickers who are making money at the expense of poor refugees. It is not about disagreements with Turkey over questions of content. I hope and believe that Turkey is ready to start cooperating with our police forces on these issues."@en1
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