E/CN.4/1996/72/Add.2 page 11 have very rewarding discussions with representatives of the Government and non-governmental organizations. He now knows exactly what has come of efforts to combat rightist extremism, xenophobia and racism. In many respects, this outcome is laudable. 56. It is none the less true that the integration of foreigners in Germany remains a problem and that the rigid official policy on immigration, within the narrow framework of the European Union, could profitably be reviewed. The Special Rapporteur therefore reiterates here the recommendations he made in his principal report (E/CN.4/1996/72, paras. 24 and 25): (a) Efforts still need to be made to change mental attitudes in favour of acceptance of a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural German society; (b) Further consideration should be given to applications for asylum in order to limit, as far as possible, the hasty nature of the “airport procedure” particularly vis-à-vis asylum-seekers from the Southern hemisphere who are automatically assimilated to illegal immigrants; (c) Living conditions in the holding centres should be improved and the refoulement of supposedly illegal immigrants should be done humanely; (d) A more humane solution than refoulement should be found for the Vietnamese and Mozambicans who used to work under contract in the former German Democratic Republic and whose status has been made precarious by reunification; (e) Lastly, a law should be passed against racism, anti-Semitism and xenophobia.