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"Mr President, we have spent a whole day here in the European Parliament discussing human rights and high ideals, and it is therefore a matter of some shame that, when the Union then acts in the real world, matters look quite different. With Eurodac, the Commission and the Council are, in my view, going too far in their desire to monitor asylum seekers and other citizens of third countries who cross the border into Fortress Europe. The Eurodac initiative is a series of absurdities and outrages. Firstly, keeping the fingerprints of minors – right down to 14 years of age – who have not committed any criminal offence contravenes the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, which asks us to protect children and to respect an age of criminal responsibility of 18 years if we ourselves have not legally specified another age – something which, as far as I know, the Union has not done. Keeping fingerprints for up to ten years, even if the person concerned has not committed any offence and even if they have perhaps, into the bargain, obtained legal residence in the area of the Union, is a violation of the demand under the European Convention on Human Rights for respect for private life. To confuse asylum seekers with illegal immigrants contravenes the Convention on Refugees. Those human and fundamental rights which are so much talked about have no value if we are not in a position to guarantee them in practice, and on behalf of those who penetrate Fortress Europe as well. The impression with which those people travel home, or which they obtain while they are here, of the “area of freedom, security and justice” does not reflect those values which, on state occasions, are otherwise designated as global and universal. What I would therefore urge the Commission and the Council to do is to allow Eurodac to die a peaceful death, as it deserves to do."@en1
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