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"Mr President, we did manage to get in something positive about gender identity and the Qualifications Directive. In terms of the common European asylum system, we are not there yet. Certainly with this latest round of recasts we have seen the limits of the recast system. Many of us feel we fought for every bit of progress that we have managed to get in this package, against a number of Member States that certainly did not want to move.
We can see that we do not yet have a common system if you look at what is happening with one and a half million refugees from Syria, a relatively small number of them in the European Union. Yet when you see the examination of their claims, some countries appear to be doing the job properly, others are not and virtually all claims are being rejected.
One of the things that this Parliament, and certainly my Group, wanted was the genuine examination of every claim. We wanted to see high standards of human rights, we wanted to see a higher standard of consistency across Member States, not the lottery that Ms Guillaume has referred to, and we wanted to see the respect of the dignity of individuals, not treating people as criminals and automatically locking them up in closed centres simply because they dared to claim asylum.
So what progress do we have against those benchmarks? My colleagues will speak of Eurodac and procedures. It is true that on Dublin we have made quite a bit of progress compared to the current Dublin II Regulation. A number of the concerns raised in the latest report from a Jesuit refugee service will be addressed, and the recent Court case will be really important. We do not want children left at airports because they have not been picked up by people from the social services of the country to which they are being returned again.
On reception, my judgment would be that we have made marginal progress and that a number of safeguards in terms of levels of support, and indeed safeguards in terms related to detention, really do not take us very far forward. I am sorry to say that."@en1
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