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"In its founding Treaties, the EU undertakes to be guided by principles such as human rights and the rights of minorities when acting on the international stage. The European Union is all too keen to take the moral high ground and point the finger at other countries, even when it has yet to put its own house in order. Two prominent examples of this are the CIA overflights and the CIA’s secret prisons. There is also still some work to do in respect of minorities in a large number of EU Member States, not to mention the question of unlawful legislation like the Czech Beneš decrees or the regulations of the Anti-Fascist Council of the People’s Liberation of Yugoslavia (AVNOJ), which are still in existence and which the European Union regularly considers itself not competent to deal with. Moreover, Mr Howitt’s report is a work that is completely overloaded with left-wing ideology and humanitarian rhetoric. For example, it is greatly concerned with the rights of homosexual and transgender people in developing countries, but, at the same time, fails to recognise that minimum standards of human rights first need to be established in these countries. Overall, the EU does not acquit itself well in this report, which is why I voted against it."@en1
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