” “"The member states of the Council of Europe ought to revise their policies in support of refugees and asylum seekers". Mevlüt Cavusoglu, president of the Refugees Commission of the Parliamentary Assembly of the CoE, comments, just before the World Refugee Day, on the situation and the regulations in force in the old continent. According to some UN statistics, "the number of refugees in Europe has decreased by 15% last year. While this decrease is partly due to an improvement in the standards of a few of their native countries, this is also the result of the support strategies that the states are more and more willing to adopt". After all, "the worrying number of victims that are still recorded amidst the refugees and asylum seekers should keep us on the alert. These people actually resort to more and more desperate means and go through more and more dangerous routes to get into Europe". Once in Europe, asylum seekers and refugees have to face new problems, connected with increasing legal restrictions and the lack of social and health care services. Cavusoglu concludes: "The 2006 World Refugee Day is a perfect time for the states to concentrate on their responsibilities and on the policies that they have developed so far for such a vulnerable group of people".” “
