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"Mr President, what has occurred with the European arrest warrant and prison detention conditions will surely remind many European citizens of other situations in the European Union. Basically, we have this craze to do things half-cocked: unify where it is easy, then fail to harmonise where it is difficult.
I am in favour of the advantages and see the benefits of having a European arrest warrant. I believe it can be important for the victims and for justice to be done. On the other hand, as we have already said many times in this House, and as the Commission knows very well, we cannot continue for much longer, with regard to detention conditions, or procedural conditions in general relating to suspects and those accused of a crime, pushing ahead with the European arrest warrant without also plugging the gaps that exist at European Union level.
The European Commission is now well aware of these. It produced a Green Paper on the differences, the enormous variation, in detention conditions in the European Union. Basically, what we want to know is: what is the Commission now going to do to harmonise these conditions, because without that, it will always be very difficult for us to explain to our citizens what purpose the European arrest warrant serves and why it is that some suspects find themselves in conditions that are at times distressing, degrading and inhumane in some of the countries of the Union that have truly lamentable detention conditions."@en1
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