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"Mr President, I would like to welcome this report, which is an informative instrument on more than one level: it is an excellent compilation of the existing legislation, it monitors accurately the development of the legislation and, in particular, the effects of 11 September, and it provides clear proof that the perception of danger has changed the terms of the balance between freedom and security, that the increase in the number of exceptional laws has substantially limited our fundamental rights and held them up to ridicule.
With the adoption of European provisions such as the framework decisions on terrorism and the European arrest warrant, or even the freezing of assets of certain entities and individuals considered to be terrorists, the European Union is consolidating the many anti-terrorism and repressive laws adopted by the Member States. However, if the need to combat terrorism must not be an excuse to adopt discriminatory and arbitrary laws, the absence of a clear and precise definition of terrorism in European legislation today allows the implicit criminalisation of social movements linked to freedom of expression and freedom of association. A simple suspicion can result in detention.
Entire populations that were already vulnerable have been even more so since 11 September: nationals of third countries, asylum-seekers, Roma and Muslims. With disregard for fundamental rights and public freedoms, these populations are often treated as if they pose a threat or a danger to state security and it is easy to blame it on 11 September. It allows us to ignore the real issues society must face: integration, xenophobia and immigration and asylum policy. Today, the fight against terrorism serves as a pretext for the fight against immigration, which is no longer considered to be anything but illegal.
The association agreements with Algeria, for example, are a good illustration of this amalgam of terrorism and immigration. The same applies to the agreements on the readmission of
sent to third countries. The list of violations carried out within the European Union by the states and institutions is a long one: xenophobia, double punishment, arbitrary detention, discriminatory practices as regards hiring and housing, and offences based on identity.
Yet human rights have no borders, so we must be frank and begin by putting our own house in order. We must stop using human rights as a currency with third countries; the aim of the European Union is to promote peace, the values of freedom, justice and solidarity and the welfare of its people. We must now make all efforts to ensure that human rights are at last respected in the European Union for all residents, regardless of their nationality."@en1
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