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"Madam President, today we are here, surely, to speak about implementation of rules. It is not an exciting subject, but rules are what will save us in the end. And if we do not play by the rules then why are we here in the first place?
Rules and implementation do not always allow for flashy announcements, claims of big victories or headlines about vital breakthroughs, but they do matter. It was, therefore, disappointing following yesterday’s summit with Turkey to hear that once again, for the second time in 12 months during this crisis, our rule book has been torn up and thrown in the bin.
We must first make the rules we have in place work, or at least give them a chance to work and to make them work better, rather than always producing new policies based on desperation. I am supportive of a lot of the proposals the Commission has come forward with, building upon and enhancing the mechanisms we already have in place. And they will help us protect the external borders, help make returns more efficient and offer solidarity and assistance through EASO and Frontex. Vice-President Timmermans has offered us assurances today in all those respects. But nowhere in the current established rules does it say that we should take actions in contradiction to our own asylum laws, hand over huge sums of money with no proper guarantees in return and abandon the Copenhagen criteria in exchange for nothing more than a promise.
Silver-bullet solutions do not exist, relocation does not yet work and I fear any deal we make with Turkey and its current proposed form without a proper legal framework and a system of incremental payments, targets and benchmarks will create nothing more than another failure, at a time when we really need success. I fear that George Bernard Shaw was too right when he said ‘we learn from history that we learn nothing from history’."@en1
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