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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"1999-09-15"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Preparatory work for the European Council meeting in Tampere2
dcterms:Language	"fi"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.19990915.3.3-028"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:1999-09-15-Speech-3-0292
lpv:speaker	lp:Matti Wuori2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; - (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 member; G/EFA (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 vice-chair; Delegation to the EU-Estonia Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, despite the splendid presentation by the President-in-Office of the Council, Mrs Halonen, I have to draw attention to the secretive way preparations have been made for the meeting at Tampere, which last week led to a grotesque incident after the Danish newspaper published a story saying that a curb would be put on immigration from third countries, even with recourse to scare campaigns and threats. A certain Finnish television reporter, who had used a quite harmless memo on the Tampere meeting he had got from a Member of Parliament, received a communication from the Secretary-General and the Speaker at the Finnish Parliament banning him indefinitely from entering the Parliament building. Suppressing the free flow of information and bypassing society in this way, whilst preparing for a summit on an area of freedom, security and justice, gives cause to suspect that that area is not free or open to the extent that our traditions would require. It gives cause to suspect that narrow, strict security, which is ultimately based on repression, will ignore those very freedoms and fundamental rights of citizens whose enhancement ought now to be on the agenda. The Finnish writer, Samuli Paronen, said, “The more efficient the security systems, the more insecure the people”. Ignorance is not a virtue; sometimes it may be a questionable blessing. Ignorance due to secrecy has no place in a mature political system, such as the one we should be building for a Europe of the citizen, of the individual. In this way, we can also achieve a positive, humane and open policy on immigration and an asylum procedure which genuinely complies with the Geneva Convention and avoids discrimination of any kind."@en1

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