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"Mr President, I wanted to begin by congratulating Mrs Buitenweg on her excellent report. I believe she has demonstrated perfectly why issues of freedom and justice cannot be separated from those of security. Today is the opportunity thanks to this report, by the way to redress the balance, because for several years the repressive face of justice and home affairs has been the more fully developed side of the policy and even, in some respects, the only developed side. It is absolutely indispensable that we go still further today and ensure that the extradition system applies, without loss of respect for individual rights, to all suspects, including those suspected of crimes relating to terrorism. Moreover, we need a corrective mechanism for any cases where a national judicial system does not meet the minimum standards. This type of measure would serve to give more substance to the right to a fair trial, a principle enshrined in the European Convention on Human Rights. As was said a short time ago, such a mechanism would be an essential and long-overdue complement to the European arrest warrant. Let us remember especially in view of a number of rather shocking observations we have heard that it is not a matter of mollycoddling criminals but of increasing confidence in all our legal systems so as to encourage Member States to work together. It is an absolutely indispensable step in the direction of greater mutual trust between Member States and towards the principle of mutual recognition of judicial decisions. It is an essential condition for the construction of a European judicial area, to which all of us, I am sure, are firmly committed."@en1

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