Common asylum policy
31.1.2007
ORAL QUESTION H-0092/07
for Question Time at the part-session in March 2007
pursuant to Rule 109 of the Rules of Procedure
by Inger Segelström
to the Commission
The numbers of refugees fleeing from Iraq to Europe have increased rapidly, and the situation in Iraq is only deteriorating. According to some experts on refugee movements, what is taking place now can only be classified as a mass flight. Of the just over 16 000 Iraqis who sought asylum in Europe between January and November last year, 45% came to Sweden. Every second asylum-seeker in Sweden is now an Iraqi. Nothing suggests that the numbers leaving Iraq are likely to be reduced: indeed, the opposite is more likely. What will the Commission do to encourage Member States to display greater solidarity in sharing responsibility for these people who are coming to Europe from Iraq?
Tabled: 31.01.2007
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