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"Mr President, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I must congratulate Commissioner António Vitorino on his efficiency and hard work that have led to the progress made, which has been particularly noticeable in the last six months. 2002 was more positive than previous years and we saw a considerable number of initiatives in the field of justice and home affairs.
The proposals for a European arrest warrant and for a framework decision on terrorism that have already been referred to, for example, are proof of the Union’s ability to implement the objectives set by the Treaty of Amsterdam when the need to act is combined with the will to do so. Nevertheless, and despite the progress that has been made, as Baroness Ludford has already observed and as was also stated at Laeken, I quote, ‘new boosts and new guidelines are needed to make good the delay seen in certain areas’.
On the one hand considerable progress has been made in stepping up cooperation between the agencies responsible for implementing the law on the mutual recognition of judgments in criminal matters, on the European arrest warrant and on harmonising criminal and anti-terrorist legislation. On the other, much still remains to be done in order to achieve a practical and effective system for safeguarding citizens’ rights. It cannot be emphasised too much, as indeed Commissioner Vitorino emphasised, that it is crucial to maintain a balance between the three components of the same concept, which together constitute the area of freedom, security and justice. In other words, there can be no security without freedom and justice.
Another source of regret, as various speakers have said today, is the excessively frequent use of the right of initiative by the Member States, who have increased the number of proposals that this Parliament has felt obliged to reject because they lack coherence, clarity and even usefulness and which were only guided by the requirements of national politics or to placate the media. Furthermore, the imposition of matters pertaining to the first pillar and of means that fall under the third pillar has been an ongoing source of difficulties. Decisions need to be taken, especially in areas such as data protection.
With regard to Europol and Eurojust, it is regrettable that there is still only an indirect democratic division of responsibility, which is fragmented and insufficiently limited. To conclude, Mr President, the reduced level of democratic legitimacy that we are still seeing is also a matter of regret. Parliament is rarely consulted and often on political agreements that have already been concluded in Council, which means that our contribution is an irrelevant and useless document."@en1
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