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"Mr President, a Constitution and the Charter of Fundamental Rights are the two faces of the new Europe that we are building because democracy cannot be organised with twenty-five countries without binding fundamental rights. Firstly, because the credibility of enlargement and confidence in it must be founded on a common stock of principles and rights which consolidate relations between States and citizens, whom history has deprived of the ability to live together and to trust one another. Secondly, because the new citizenship of the Union, which places European citizens at the heart of European legitimacy, requires their defence and protection against any abusive behaviour that could result from the centralisation of power in the name of efficient decision-making.
We must therefore find a basis for giving the citizens direct access to the Union’s courts and we must similarly define the mechanisms that will persuade national courts to apply the Charter in the name of the citizens. The status of the Charter must, therefore, be raised to that of primary law, making it a fundamental source of reference for the Court of Justice and for national courts, thereby making this instrument basic Union law and a genuine integral part of the Community’s legal acquis.
What kind of area of freedom, security and justice would we be building without a Charter of Fundamental Rights? What kind of model for civic and political co-existence could exist without this? Mr President, no new competence is being created as a result of the Charter. On the contrary, it limits the exercise of power of the future Union. Furthermore, no right is being removed from those already enjoyed by the citizens of the Member States, and nor is any higher protection being diluted into a Charter that lays down only minimum rules.
Consequently, if we wish to have an organised democracy, based on common values, let us make the Charter form the basis of a Constitution, making it the fundamental source of reference and protection for the Union’s citizens. This is what the report states, this is the opinion of Mr Duff and this I believe, in fact I am sure, is the opinion of Commissioner Vitorino. I heartily congratulate both of them!"@en1
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