Type: Acts of the European Union: European Parliament Resolution on enhanced intra-EU solidarity in the field of asylum

Authority: European Authorities - European Union: European Parliament

Date: 09/11/2012

Subject: The European Parliament welcomes the Commission communication on enhanced intra-EU solidarity in the field of asylum, which calls for the translation of solidarity and responsibility-sharing into concrete measures, and for Member States to fulfil their responsibility for ensuring their own asylum systems meet both international and European standards; moreover the Parliament emphasises the central role and horizontal effect of solidarity and responsibility-sharing and it recalls that the right to international protection is a fundamental right enshrined in international and Union law which is complemented by a series of additional rights and principles, such as the principle of non-refoulement, the right to dignity, the prohibition of torture, inhuman or degrading treatment, the protection of women from violence and all forms of discrimination, the right to an effective remedy and the right to private and family life. Finally it stresses that a high level of protection for asylum applicants and beneficiaries of international protection cannot be achieved, and solid asylum decisions cannot be made, if the discrepancies between the proportion of asylum applications and individual Member States' absorption capacity in technical and administrative terms are not redressed and if the support measures in place in Member States are ill-adapted to respond to varying asylum flows

Classification: Freedoms - Art. 18 Right to asylum

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