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"Madam President-in-Office of the Council, Mr Frattini, ladies and gentlemen, I should like to begin by thanking Mr Frattini for his excellent work with our committee, and I hope the Council will follow his example in the second period of our work.
I should first like to echo the words of Mr Kreissl-Dörfler, and say that this is an interim report. This document could not be accused of not containing the kind of conclusions found in a final report. I should also like to thank all the members of the committee that I chair and in particular the rapporteur Mr Fava for his high-quality, dedicated work in committee. I also wish to thank all of those who helped us. Thirdly, I wish to point out that in the hearings, there were 70 testimonies made, 50 hours of statements given, two foreign missions undertaken – one to the United States and one to the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia – and thousands of documents analysed.
As things stand, I feel that quite apart from the fact that the committee has justified its existence, illegal acts have taken place in Europe that need to be assessed in terms of their scale and the extent to which the Member States were involved. Furthermore, control of air space and airport facilities needs to be stepped up, the democratic control of the activities of the secret services should be strengthened, as Mr Frattini said, and the activities of foreign secret services on European soil needs to be more closely monitored.
In adopting this report, we are asking the Board to put in place the conditions to discover the truth about what happened, and with the key amendments tabled by the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats we are contributing towards a balanced, accurate and fair report. After all, we do not want this thorough, dedicated work to be mistaken for some kind of political propaganda."@en1
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