Perhaps Germany was too liberal in its political asylum policy.

I hear quite a few people talking about a common European asylum policy.

Positive motivation, then, is extremely important to a successful asylum policy.

We cannot face the new members with an incomplete asylum policy.

This is clearly not where the added value of a European asylum policy lies.

We need to work towards a common European asylum policy.

We welcome the Commission's two communications as an important step in the development of a common asylum policy.

That is an asylum policy which we will not support.

Finally, a reference to asylum policy, on which I had hoped to say more.

Amsterdam set the course for a route to a common asylum policy.