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"en.20070709.14.1-050"2
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"Since the change of regimes in Central and Eastern Europe, the rights to free opinion and free assembly need protection not primarily from the state but from the ever more powerful forces of extremist, neo-fascist ideologies. Generally, these constitute extra-parliamentary, but extremely violent political groupings. In some states, exclusion and intolerance are not alien even to government policies.
Various national, ethnic and sexual minorities are being intimidated. The exercise of their rights is being restricted and hampered, their human dignity humiliated. In the past few weeks in several Member States, gays celebrated their equality of rights. In some places the festivities of millions went off without disturbance. Elsewhere, extreme right-wing forces provoked conflicts in the streets.
In the spirit of French president Jacques Chirac’s farewell speech, I ask all European conservative forces, at both European and national levels, to lend a helping hand to all endangered people and to their supporters. Let us defend together the dignity of European citizens, and let us stand up against homophobia and against all exclusionary behaviour. If today we do not protect the right to difference, it may be that tomorrow we will not be able to protect our own."@en1
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