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"Mr President, making a speech is always easier when you can say that you agree with the previous speakers, in this case, the Presidency and the Commission. Almost everything has already been said on the subject of terrorism, following 11 September, 11 March and now the Beslan tragedy. This is no longer merely a case of terrorism, it is a new reality that I would call hyper-terrorism, in which not only civilians, but also children are used as a terrible means of achieving aims. In the circumstances, Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, what can be said is very simple. First and foremost, we must insist that institutions and governments act firmly. We cannot accept, under any circumstances, any neutrality from an institution or State in the face of an act of hyper-terrorism of this nature. It is not only governments that must work together; we must demand that all governments and institutions work together in the fight against terrorism and hyper-terrorism. The firmness that we demand, as has been mentioned, must never, however, be at the expense of what makes us strong and what we strive for, which is democracy, the rule of law and human rights. This is an area in which we must not make any concessions. We do not want to establish police states anywhere, not even in those States with the greatest justification for so doing, because if we were to go down that road we would lose, as has already been said, all of our moral strength. What we need, in addition to firmness, is, therefore, closer cooperation and, at the moment, we feel that there is room for improvement in this area, firstly as regards intelligence, but also as regards the flow of money that is behind terrorism. The questions of who is funding this flow, and how the money is circulating around the world must be investigated in much greater depth than has until now been the case. The European institutions are alive to the problem. I applaud the work done in the Commission, in particular by Mr Vitorino, and this work should be carried on even more thoroughly. I shall finish, Mr President, by saying that in our view terrorism has always been a struggle against democracy, freedom and the rule of law, which are the very cornerstones of our European Union. This is one of the main reasons why we should combat it together."@en1
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