Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-03-14-Speech-2-111"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-03-14"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:EU Charter of Fundamental Rights2
dcterms:Language	"sv"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000314.8.2-111"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-03-14-Speech-2-1122
lpv:speaker	lp:Charlotte Cederschiöld2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2002-03-07)3 member; Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegation for relations with the United States (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Moderata samlingspartiet (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, Europe is founded upon fundamental rights. So is the American Constitution, namely upon our fundamental European rights and the ideas of John Locke and the French Revolution. American citizens can demand our European rights in their own courts, something which has provided them with empowerment, self-assurance and a pride in themselves. Fundamental rights can create identity and citizenship. They can also help individuals to take advantage of opportunities which are now arising in Europe through freedom of movement, the euro and information technology, that is to say the opportunities which are emerging in the new economy. The assets we have as Europeans in the form of cultural differences are easier to maintain and to accept if citizens know that they can claim their rights throughout the Union. Quite simply, freedom of movement demands a basis of guaranteed, fundamental rights. Enlargement of the Union without guaranteed rights could even turn into a fiasco and delay our economic development. A binding Charter is an indispensable requirement and a necessary part of a much-needed constitution. I want to warn against joining the Council of Europe’s convention, especially if this step were not to be combined with a binding Charter. These complications ought to be studied more closely. I hope that we are to have a modernised version of the wording of Article 6 of the Council of Europe’s convention in which our already existing rights are listed in a summarised and concentrated form, with modern biotechnology and data protection added. The Charter should be easy to communicate to citizens and be clear to them. It should not be divided into two or contain a whole lot of references. The Charter must be binding and embrace the European institutions. It cannot be fair for citizens to be left without protection against abuses by institutions resembling police forces, such as OLAF and Europol. This project will give rise to more powerful European individuals."@en1

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