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"Madam President, first, I would of course like to thank our rapporteur, Richard Howitt, because I do not believe that I have ever had the opportunity to work in such an environment and, up to now, I do not believe that I had ever seen a rapporteur encourage the desire for compromise to such an extent, even sometimes trying to reconcile the irreconcilable.
This report is important because it shows a strong desire to make progress on the demands that Parliament and, more generally, the European Union, ought to have with regard to human rights. In particular, it stresses the need to bring into line the internal and external policies of the European Union in this area, and we know that there is every reason to do so. For, before lecturing the whole world, we must start to effectively put our own house in order and hypocrisy is often to be found in this House.
The report places much emphasis on the need to effectively implement the clauses on democracy and human rights, which should not be there just to ease our consciences. They serve no real purpose if they are systematically and constantly sacrificed on the altar of economic liberalism. There too, in reality, we know what this is all about.
I do not agree with all of the gold stars which our rapporteur has awarded, Baroness Ashton, and I do apologise, in particular concerning the European Neighbourhood Policy.
Finally, I want to share some of our concerns with regard to the creation of the foundation for democracy and the risks of political interference and manipulation that may be involved."@en1
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