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"Madam President, Commissioner, first of all, I must commend the fact that children’s rights have become an integral part of the fundamental rights protected by the European Union following the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon. Indeed, any European Union policy that directly or indirectly affects children must be devised, implemented and followed through in the best interests of the child, in accordance with the fundamental rights enshrined in this Charter.
However, I should like to focus my speech on the special attention that the European Union should pay to children and their rights, in view of the increasingly rapid growth of new communication technologies. The latter can unfortunately be a way of facilitating encounters between paedophiles and their victims, but they can also act as a vehicle for disseminating child pornography content.
The European Union must respond to these two dangers in a strong and uncompromising manner. As far as the risks associated with children using the Internet are concerned, I believe that prevention should be at the heart of European policies. It is our duty to educate children about the online environment. To this end, the European Union must draw up a proper prevention policy that is suitable even for the very young, in order to inform children of the risks they run when they use the Internet. Internet usage must be safer and better adapted to children’s expectations and needs.
Alongside this prevention policy, the Member States must combat new forms of abuse and sexual exploitation such as online child grooming for sexual purposes, where adults, using their false profile information as a cover, take advantage of this situation to commit their crime.
Finally, I wish to say a word about the fight against child pornography disseminated on the Internet. We have a duty to shut down sites with child pornography content, and we must make every effort to do so as quickly as possible. If, however, it took too long to shut down these sites, particularly in third countries, a temporary solution should of course be applied so as to block access to them, in the best interests, I repeat, of children who are victims of these atrocities."@en1
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