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"en.20001114.2.2-053"2
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"Mr President, with the vote on the Charter we are setting off once again along the road towards a European Constitution. The Union is a giant of the world's economy but it still lacks a soul. Although the Free Trade Area is growing and the democratic deficit is being reduced, the risk that competitiveness will start to conflict with mutual support and that a free market will encourage nostalgia for the past in social and territorial contexts which feel that their traditions and security are under threat is also on the increase.
The Charter has many supporters but also many enemies, and we have heard the opinions of those who do not want a political Europe. This difference of opinions is one of the rights to freedoms recognised by the Charter itself.
However, the Charter's enemies highlight the political significance but also the legal status, which does not conflict with the Treaties but reinforces the democratic perspectives. For some the Charter does not go far enough and for others it goes too far. The Members of the European People's Party, which has Christian Democrat origins, are convinced that the reference to Europe's spiritual and moral heritage will strengthen the cohesion of a Union which values cultural and political differences. The method followed by a transparent, open convention and the work carried out by Mr Méndez de Vigo and other Members deserve our full support. Now we expect Nice to produce a strategy which will make Europe a union of economic, social and political rights."@en1
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