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"Mr President, yesterday in this Parliament we heard from the two amazing Sakharov Prize winners, the young Yazidi women who had escaped Daesh. They described the situation of the first refugee camp they came to in Iraqi Kurdistan: overcrowded, unsanitary, lacking privacy, cold and insecure, and lacking medical care. They could have been describing many of the camps or reception centres, especially on the islands in Greece. They said: we look up to Europe as a symbol of humanity. Well, we are really failing at the moment. If it were not for local people in many of these places, themselves often in dire need, the situation would be even worse.
So how soon do we really believe that we are going to have adequate facilities in Greece on the islands? Should we not be immediately transferring asylum seekers, particularly those who are vulnerable, to mainland Greece, ensuring they are adequately protected and also stepping up the relocation process? As others have said: the lack of will from some Member States is pitiful.
We should not be congratulating ourselves on the EU-Turkey deal. We have no wish to see it as a stable and sustainable pillar of EU policy in its current state. When we are looking at questions about returns, we should also remember that 87% of those deemed irregular migrants actually come from the top ten refugee-producing countries of the world. So please, let us think about the solidarity and humanity."@en1
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