Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2014-02-26-Speech-3-909-000"

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dcterms:Date	"2014-02-26"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Timothy Kirkhope2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr[nbsp ]President, Commissioner, the European Arrest Warrant, like the European Investigation Order, is of great value in the fight against serious crime and terrorism. I congratulate Mr[nbsp ]Melo and Baroness Ludford on their work. My country has benefitted from the use of the European Arrest Warrant (EAW) on many occasions, securing the extradition of drug smugglers, child-sex offenders, rapists and terrorists. I remember when I was a Home Office Minister the extradition process used to be painfully difficult, plagued by political obstructions, and that is certainly not something I want to return to. We live in a world where terrorism and cross-border crime hang over us in a very serious way every day. It is clear, in a modern world, that an effective and timely method of international cooperation on extradition is essential. But just as essential are the checks and balances and the proportionality that go along with it, and the need for proportionality is at the core of our debate. The EAW was not designed to leave a person to languish in a jail without an early trial. It was not intended to make an individual subject to years of inconvenience and questioning as the result of outdated requests. And it was not put in place to prosecute the most trivial petty crimes. Whilst such instances are exceptions, rather than the rule, they are exceptions that cannot be tolerated. It is the duty of the Commission, this Parliament and Member State governments to restore confidence in the EAW through meaningful reform. Like the rest of this House, I hope, I will fight for the highest standards of protection of the principle of a fair trial and for judicial proportionality checks. Criminals must have nowhere to hide in the EU, but a necessary ingredient of any fight against crime is the public’s continued faith and trust in the system."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Conservative Party (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; LIBE (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation for relations with the United States (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; PECH (2011-12-13--2014-06-30)3 substitute; CULT (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Timothy Kirkhope,"1 "on behalf of the ECR Group"1
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