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The report before us is an annual report, which is wide-ranging and addresses a variety of subjects and should be analysed with great care.
The original version of the report focused on just three areas and contained some provisions that were entirely out of place, particularly in areas such as terrorism and so-called reproductive health.
The rapporteur accepted a large number of amendments, which led to this less unbalanced version.
The various situations highlighted in the ‘new’ report are, nevertheless, almost all taken out of context.
The document contains issues that do not fall under the traditional concept of ‘human rights’; indeed, they go far beyond the original meaning.
I voted against the report.
I object to the way in which the report has far exceeded its scope. I cannot allow the European Union to use this method – endeavouring to bring, on a permanent basis, all other kinds of rights under the umbrella of ‘human rights’ – to find an easy way of extending its scope for action. It is wrong for the EU to seek to increase its competences by means of deliberately blurring concepts which, in turn, makes it more difficult effectively to safeguard fundamental human rights.
What we are seeing is a clever move that will subtly pave the way for the European Union to deem the most diverse fields ‘human rights’ and to intervene in any area it wishes."@en1
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