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How to use the word asylum in a Sentence? Page #11

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For a functioning asylum system, you need an effective return policy, and there's still a lot of work to do on this.

Austrian Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If I remember rightly, we have sent more than 5,000 or 5,500 back from Austria, especially to Bulgaria and Romania among others, for a functioning asylum system, you need an effective return policy, and there's still a lot of work to do on this, especially with regard to north African countries.

Johanna Mikl-Leitner

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

For a functioning asylum system, you need an effective return policy, and there's still a lot of work to do on this, especially with regard to north African countries.

Johanna Mikl-Leitner

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

One of the reasons why the asylum system ... isn't working is because member states do not apply it.

Frans Timmermans

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Switzerland's share in European asylum requests is at its lowest in 15 years.

President Sommaruga

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It is the government's clear position that Denmark should not be part of any mandatory quota system where it is decided from Brussels how many asylum seekers we should take in Denmark, we do already take a significant co-responsibility and treat the asylum seekers here fairly.

Immigration Minister Inger Stojberg

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We do already take a significant co-responsibility and treat the asylum seekers here fairly.

Immigration Minister Inger Stojberg

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The detainees at Roszke are held in filthy, overcrowded conditions, hungry, and lacking medical care, the Hungarian authorities have an obligation to ensure that migrants and asylum-seekers are held in humane conditions and that their rights are respected.

Peter Bouckaert

Found on CNN
8 years ago

This joint European asylum system cannot just exist on paper but must also exist in practice. I say that because it lays out minimum standards for accommodating refugees and the task of registering refugees, our responsibility is deeply moral. It is a human responsibility.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This joint European asylum system cannot just exist on paper but must also exist in practice - I say that because it lays out minimum standards for accommodating refugees and the task of registering refugees.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

But in the four years of the Syria crisis, there has been inertia rather than leadership, as the German government calmly says that it expects 800,000 refugees and asylum seekers in 2015, it is vital for the U.S. to step up its response.

David Milliband in a statement

Found on CNN
8 years ago

There is a major funding issue which should be addressed urgently, the minimum sum Greece needs is 400 million euros from the asylum fund and 330 million from the fund for poor to tackle urgent needs for infrastructure.

Economy Minister Nikos Christodoulakis

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I do not think Schengen is over, but I certainly see the danger that if it is not possible in the long run to apply European asylum rules, that this directly erodes and endangers Schengen.

Stephan Mayer

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

But I certainly see the danger that if it is not possible in the long run to apply European asylum rules, that this directly erodes and endangers Schengen.

Stephan Mayer

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The asylum issue could be the next big project where we show whether we're capable of working together.

Angela Merkel

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Cambodia is committed to a regional solution and has committed through a memorandum of understanding with the Australian government to resettle some asylum seekers who are found to be genuine refugees, it wishes to harness the skills of foreign workers and in this way, they can resettle people into Cambodia and help boost their GDP.

Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It will take months, but we will have a single European policy on asylum, not as many policies as there are countries.

Matteo Renzi

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It will take months, but we will have a single European policy on asylum, not as many policies as there are (EU) countries.

Matteo Renzi

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It is not just a case of Greece not processing those (asylum) claims, but they are actively doing their very best to get the refugees to move on to central Europe as soon as possible, the Western Balkan countries are overrun, overwhelmed and have been left to their own devices.

Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We need a common European asylum policy.

Angela Merkel

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8 years ago

The situation is extremely unsatisfying, we need a common European asylum policy.

Chancellor Angela Merkel

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The government cannot take funds to build reception centers for asylum seekers and then host people who don't apply for asylum. It's a tricky thing.

Eva Cosse

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

That's how we have interpreted it - we must recognize the asylum status they have given him, it seems like we have different opinions.

Cecilia Riddselius

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We have got to be able to resolve this problem ultimately by being able to return those who are not entitled to claim asylum back to their countries of origin, that's our number one priority.

British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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