Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-03-31-Speech-3-195"

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dcterms:Date	"2004-03-31"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20040331.6.3-195"2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Olle Schmidt2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation for relations with Japan (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 member; ECON (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; ELDR (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Slovak Republic Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3 unknown; Folkpartiet liberalerna (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, Mr Roche, I should like to begin by thanking Mrs Boumediene-Thiery for her good work on an important report. What is the situation like in the EU-15, which is a Union founded on the equal value of all human beings, humanism, tolerance and human dignity? I should think that the vast majority of us in this House can see cracks in the EU façade. Welcome to our Union: refugees are insulted and excluded and run the risk of losing their lives on the way to a better life in Europe. An important step towards a common policy on refugees was taken yesterday, as the Minister said, but it has been a long time in coming, and the proposals do not go far enough. Eight hundred thousand women and children are bought and sold as commodities in a loathsome sex trade. Women suffer genital mutilation, risk being forced into marriage and suffer abuse daily just for being women. Freedom of the media and of expression are being reduced. Homosexuals suffer discrimination. Anti-semitism is on the increase, and Jews are hearing the same slogans that resounded through Europe in the 1930s. There is evidence of hatred and violence in the report being presented today. Racism and implacability towards immigrants are growing. Millions of immigrants are excluded from society. Muslims are being persecuted. Islamic fundamentalism is growing strong in the suburbs of our towns and cities. Indeed, it was in our Union that 190 ordinary Spaniards lost their lives on their way to work on an ordinary day. It is true to say that freedom has never been stronger than this spring, when Europe is united and old wounds are healed. At the same time, however, we know that our EU-15 will bring many shortcomings along with it into the new EU on 1 May 2004. I should like to conclude by saying that it is regrettable that virtually all Member States are introducing restrictions on the new Member States. European leaders should have been able to prevent this together by being better prepared and having adapted the acquis communautaire in time. Many of our new friends are justifiably disappointed by this. In conclusion, I should like to say that the Group of the European Liberal, Democrat and Reform Party requests the support of the House for two amendments on the European arrest warrant and the French ban on headscarves."@en1

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