Claude Moraes (S&D). - Mr President, as the previous speaker rightly said with regard to the evaluation of the EUREMA project in Malta in October, it is very clear that we needed a voluntary permanent relocation scheme. As the Commissioner very honestly said, we cannot have such a scheme if the Council sets its face against a permanent legislative solution.

We are here today with the oral question for the simple reason that the Member States are not providing the solidarity which we in this House wish to see. We have a situation where the Commission is announcing, in the face of this resistance by the Council, an annual relocation forum.

After a drop in asylum figures since the 1990s, we now have a genuine burden-sharing crisis, where some countries, such as Greece and Malta and my own Member State, have to deal with higher asylum numbers. This is a real crisis, and we have to see whether this solution is something that we can work with. We now all have to work to see whether these kinds of solutions are something we can work with when the Member States will not help us by coming up with a permanent legislative proposal.