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"On matters involving the use of Community funds, but which affect areas that, in terms of their respective legality or illegality, fall within the sphere of national legislation and on which the Member States adopt differing responses, the European Union must refrain totally from providing funding. Otherwise, it will be in breach of the principle of subsidiarity. This is not a question of the European Union’s banning or authorising something that does not fall within its sphere of competence; it is a question of not interfering indirectly, by financial means, in exclusive national competences and of preventing taxpayers’ money from being used to fund programmes and activities which, in their own Member States, are banned or constitute illegal acts.
By not respecting this guideline, the Commission proposal clearly breaches the principle of subsidiarity and I therefore voted against it.
As regards stem cells and the hopes for this research, I suggest that, without prejudice to what each Member State does with its own financial resources, all European funding for research must be channelled towards adult stem cells. This does not raise ethical or legal problems and experiments on this type of cell have brought tangible results that are extremely encouraging, which is not the case with embryonic stem cells.
I congratulate the rapporteur, Mr Liese, on his efforts to reach a compromise limit, and on the clarity of his final statement of rejection the proposal on seeing that a majority would once again make it impossible."@en1
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