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"Commissioner, you described this report as very wide-ranging and ambitious. I will take these two adjectives as the basis for a number of minor points for reflection. It is certainly wide-ranging – too wide-ranging in terms of the issues addressed. Is it ambitious? It is not ambitious enough in its conclusions, which are limited to a few political objectives – the same objectives as always. Indeed, the rapporteur puts ingredients that are too different and too unrelated into a cocktail shaker in the hope that the result will be a digestible, well-balanced cocktail with an approach that can be submitted for the approval of all the Member States, an approach including shared, common principles on which legislation and positions can be based in the endeavour to guarantee the fundamental rights of all the citizens. Alongside a few principles which we support, for example in the field of combating discrimination and xenophobia, the rapporteur actually includes an undertaking which is too partisan in the section on freedom, going so far as to place in the stocks the police, the legal systems and the media of some – only some, take note – Member States for events connected with street riots caused by the Black Blocks and their supporters in white overalls.
The rapporteur has been influenced by bad counsel of the sort we can easily imagine – by partisan and party interests – and has wasted and bungled the opportunity she had to present a serious discussion on human rights, losing herself in empty tirades and gratuitous accusations worthy of a low-profile debate. The judges and police officers of some of the Member States are described as torturers, accused of beating up innocent people. This is a line which is unacceptable as well as out of place in such an important report as this one, just as the family model the rapporteur proposes is entirely unacceptable. It is in line with her own personal beliefs, but it contrasts with the attitude of the vast majority of Europe’s citizens, who certainly do not see homosexual unions and the right to adopt as the ideal formula on which to build the European society of tomorrow."@en1
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