Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-05-23-Speech-3-408"
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"en.20070523.26.3-408"2
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"Madam President, I want to focus on something we might all take for granted, namely that in the EU one would expect every member of any form of government in the EU to wholeheartedly support the Europe-wide fight against organised crime and terrorism. Considering the antecedents of some of those recently admitted into the new government in my country, Northern Ireland, the irony of the welcome call in this report for the Council of Ministers to monitor the governmental activities of institutions at regional level whose members include political figures with links to criminal organisations is not lost upon me, especially in a week in which the Deputy First Minister in my country, Martin McGuinness, protested at the use of the European arrest warrant to seek the extradition to Germany of a person wanted in connection with an IRA bombing charge, and during a week in which his policing spokesman condemned arrests in Northern Ireland in an organised crime investigation in which a leading Irish Republican figure has now been charged.
If you genuinely support the rule of law, then you do not attack and protest against the means of securing international justice and you do not protest against operations attacking organised crime. But if shamefully, as in Northern Ireland, you are a Sinn Féin minister, then your first loyalty is still not to the rule of law, but to protecting the interests of the republican movement. Little wonder some of us still regard Sinn Féin as unfit for government."@en1
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