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"Mr President, in her speech the rapporteur mentioned the report for human rights in the world. The vote on that parallel report will take place on Thursday morning, and it is exactly because this Parliament deigns to talk about human rights in the world and give out the Sakharov Prize that, when we discuss the annual report on our fundamental rights, we should have a unified position, as we have had in the past. It is with regret that we have an alternative motion for resolution, because I have to say, as coordinator, that I regret that we do not have that unified position.
I want to say on record that we did everything that we could to facilitate that position. I believe we did nothing to cause a situation whereby we would not have just one vote on our fundamental rights. Why did we want to do that? Because this is the first report since the Lisbon Treaty and it is on very valuable issues which the Commissioner and other speakers have mentioned: the European Parliament’s commitment to the EU accession to the European Charter of Human Rights; the data protection standards aimed at protecting domestic processing of data; the clear sets of indicators; early warnings; and so on and so forth. We have a whole range of issues which are extremely important to this Parliament, and we do not want an un-unified position on many of these points. LGBT rights, gender equality, access to justice, the vulnerable at a time of austerity – people are looking to us not to be divided when we talk about other countries and other states.
I noticed that in many of the speeches in this House, time after time people have talked about the quality of the report. I have to say again, as coordinator for the Member who has been rapporteur for this report – and listening to the Commissioner talking about the fundamental rights conference last week, the Victims’ Rights Package and procedural rights – that, although we are in the midst now of a debate about opt-outs and so on, we are talking about real issues which are helping real people, and in this annual report we are simply checking whether we are doing the right things for real people. This is not a theoretical exercise. In my own Member State, the Victims’ Rights Package was welcomed, but it has to be known to more people.
What is happening today is very valuable, and I think we should be unified in communicating this to people and not be divided. I want to put on record that we tried not to be divided and to project something very profound and something of very high quality. I congratulate the rapporteur on what she has done, and I hope we will gain a majority tomorrow for all the right reasons."@en1
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