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"Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I have one minute to call your attention to the ACTA treaty, an international anti-counterfeiting treaty which is not limited to counterfeiting. Patents and online activity are clearly included in the text in unacceptable conditions.
Last Saturday, tens of thousands of people protested throughout Europe. More than two million citizens signed a petition against the treaty. Several governments are stepping back — Poland, the Czech Republic, Romania, Slovakia — in the name of defending civil rights. Germany has withheld its decision while it waits to hear the European Parliament’s position. Nineteen Sakharov Prize laureates and several NGOs have expressed their opposition. However, the European Commission is turning a blind eye and trying to force the treaty through.
Today, I am launching an appeal to the representatives of the European people from all of the parties within this Parliament.
Ladies and gentlemen, our fellow citizens are relying on us to ensure the respect and protection of freedom of expression, freedom of information, access to generic medicines, personal data and details about their private lives, all of which are threatened by this treaty. They are relying on us to defend their freedoms and their fundamental rights and to block ACTA, as it has been presented to us in its current state.
We must not disappoint them, we must be demanding and say no, vote against ACTA."@en1
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