Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-02-14-Speech-3-156"
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"We have abstained in the vote on the report on the CIA’s alleged use of European countries for the transportation and illegal detention of prisoners.
There is no doubt that, in the fight against terrorism, human rights violations have been committed – a state of affairs that is substantiated with examples in the report. We Swedish Conservatives condemn these acts of cruelty. By mixing facts with assumptions and unconfirmed rumours, the report is in danger, however, of weakening, rather than strengthening, the justified criticism.
We opposed the setting up of the special committee because we believe that suspected crimes should be investigated by the judiciary. Responsibility for investigations has, in the first place, been exercised at national level. For example, the Swedish constitutional committee has examined – and passed judgment on – the Swedish Government’s conduct. The issues mainly dealt with by the report are those coming within the competence not of the EU but of the Member States. On these issues, the governments of the Member States are responsible not to the European Parliament but solely and exclusively to their national parliaments as long as no European legal rules have been broken. If Member States have failed to comply with commitments at European level, it is the Commission’s responsibility to investigate such violations and to go to court in connection with them."@en1
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