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"In Europe, law and order is based on a system of universal values that is enshrined in the Charter of Fundamental Rights and in the emerging Constitution. Consequently, the EU’s system of powers – of the Member States and the European institutions – is not morally neutral.
The challenge to public policy posed by issues of essential human dignity can be seen most clearly in the area of freedom, security and justice. The issues of asylum, immigration, the criminal justice system and the balance between freedom and security require consensus on justice, and, more often than not, the harmonisation of legislation.
Against this backdrop, there are pressing issues to which I should like to draw the attention of the Council and the Commission. How do we address the question of illegal immigration, for example? Does this House accept the urgent need for a common policy, or do we leave it to each Member State to have its own policy, including criminal justice policy? How do the Council and the Commission propose to address the issue of prison reform? Do they feel that this, too, is an issue for each individual Member State, or does this area urgently require a common policy covering the entire criminal justice system, in other words, encompassing the stage of serving prison sentences and indeed sentence adjustments?
The truth is that Europe is incomplete if it is simply an obsessive area of security. Europe will only be complete if, alongside concerns about the area of security, it effectively becomes an area of justice."@en1
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