Strasbourg, 25/11/2002 (Agence Europe) - Greens, Hélène Flautre and Daniel Cohn-Bendit have written to the Justice and Interior ministers to request that a discussion of asylum policy is put on the agenda for the next meeting of the JHA Council. In their letter, they point out that: "In the absence of the elaboration of a common European asylum policy, such as that decided at the Tampere Summit, the closure of the Sangatte Camp (in the Northern France: Editor's note) will be achieved at a price: massive police repression, as demonstrated with both the incessant arrests of foreigners and the strengthening of police controls, notably between France, Britain and Belgium; a new human tragedy that is assumed with difficulty by the network of solidarity, which is nonetheless, remarkable and the maintenance of personal situations that are not worthy of the EU; a worsening in the reception conditions in the most supportive countries, as witnessed by the recent changes in the United Kingdom: greater precariousness and generalised suspicion of asylum seekers and immigrants, helping to reinforce populist and racist opinions fought against by the EU". It also adds, "That's why the moment has come to debate and decide the draft directives initiated by the Commission and examined by the Parliament in view of a harmonisation and 'communautarisation' of asylum policy in Europe".