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"Mr President, Commissioner, my home country, Sweden, is one of the countries that has taken the initiative with this proposal. My party pushed this issue very hard in the election campaign. We are therefore very pleased and very grateful that it has now got to this stage. I would like to say a particularly warm thank you to Mr Varvitsiotis for his constructive work.
In Sweden, we have a good deal of crime that is committed by people from across the Baltic Sea. For us, it seems quite reasonable for many of these criminals to be able to serve their sentences in their home countries. What is more, it is possible to observe that it can perhaps sometimes be more of a deterrent to apply this principle. In Sweden, we have discovered that our prisons are regarded as having a very strong international ‘force of attraction’. I think it reasonable for it to be possible for criminals to be transferred to the countries with which they have the strongest connections and for them then to serve their sentences there. The rapporteur developed this line of argument very well and also discussed the important social side of the issue, namely the family and social attachment, which is a strong and important argument.
Since we are now developing the entire area of penal law and the police, we must, of course, ensure that we can transfer convicted criminals in a simple and less bureaucratic way. Quite simply, we need a flexible mechanism for carrying this out, something which this framework decision will certainly contribute to. The framework decision under discussion here also establishes the right of sentenced persons to state their opinion, which is of course important, while at the same time the criteria governing transfers are admirably robust.
I would like to conclude by pointing out how unreasonable I believe it is that the Council is not represented here this evening. To neglect the debate in Parliament, which represents the interests of the people, when we are discussing such important issues rooted in an initiative from the Council itself I regard as an institutional affront, particularly when we are debating data protection issues, which are such a hot topic all over Europe. I deeply regret the fact that the Presidency is not present."@en1
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