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"Mr President, it has already been said that the two speeches that we have heard this morning differ somewhat in the approaches they reflect. Mr Frattini spoke about attacking the political and social structures of terrorism. He spoke about dialogue between cultures and religions and about the promotion of fundamental rights and freedoms, not just as a goal but as a strategy to combat terror. Mr Clarke's words reflect a more practical approach: he outlines concrete and practical measures to strengthen the police and justice systems. Both are necessary and both are equally valuable.
Terrorists have struck in New York, Madrid, London, Turkey and Amsterdam. When I was in Morocco just after the terrorist strikes in Casablanca, the streets were dominated by enormous billboards with the text
do not touch my country, do not touch my neighbours, do not touch my fellow citizens. This is also the response that we, as Europeans, need to give: 'do not touch Europe'. It does not matter who you are or what excuse you think you have found for your perverse and nihilistic, violent ideology. If you hurt our fellow citizens, we will find you and you will be punished. Mr Clarke is right, the lack of faith in the European Union structure reflects a lack of trust in its ability to act.
In order to be effective, however, we need so much more than a strong police force. We need a fundamental understanding of the problem we face. We need a joint insight into the networks that recruit young men and women in our inner cities and in our prisons. We need a common stance on democracy and rights and a common strategy on their promotion in Europe and beyond.
We need to abandon the simplistic idea that promoting security automatically means limiting fundamental freedoms. We also need to forget the simplistic notion that limiting privacy automatically promotes security. In order to convince European citizens of the value of our measures, we need to take the measures that we can prove are necessary.
The case for further data retention has not been sufficiently proven; the case for human intelligence and for understanding the problem has. We need a dialogue on the place of Islam in society and about the future of multiculturalism – we need Frattini's approach. However, we also need the down-to-earth approach that I read between the lines in Mr Clarke's words.
'Do not touch my country' – it does not matter who we are, what our religion is or where we are from: if you hurt our fellow citizens, you hurt us. Do not touch Europe or the values it represents, the values that allow us all to live together in peace."@en1
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