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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"1999-09-15"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Preparation of the European Council meeting in Tampere (continued)2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.19990915.5.3-050"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:1999-09-15-Speech-3-0512
lpv:speaker	lp:Georges Berthu2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Rassemblement pour la France (1999-07-20--2000-11-22)3 member; AFCO (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; ECON (1999-07-21--2001-01-30)3 vice-chair; Delegation for relations with Canada (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 member; UEN (1999-07-20--2000-09-20)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, the European Council of Cologne had the unfortunate idea, without, as far as I know, any national Parliament ever requesting anything of the sort, of initiating the preparation of a Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. This idea, in the form in which it has apparently been adopted, seems to us both unnecessary and dangerous. Unnecessary, because, according to the conclusions of the Council, this should be no more than a purely formal exercise, combining in a single document the rights which are already in force. These are then rights which already exist and which are found in a variety of documents: treaties, the European Social Charter, the European Convention on Human Rights and above all, of course, national constitutions. What is more, these rights, as far as citizens are concerned, are already properly protected by the legal systems in force. The proposed exercise therefore seems pointless. It is none the less dangerous, as the Federalist lobbies will seize upon the Cologne decision in order to attempt to take the defence of citizens’ rights away from national constitutions and to crown them with a superior text, a supposedly European constitution. Mr Barnier even complacently stressed, during his hearing last week, that the process of preparing the Charter should be brought together with the process of constitutionalising the Treaties. Clearly the Cologne Council has set in motion a chain of events of which it is going to lose control. I believe that in fact it would be better to leave the rights of citizens to national constitutions and the protection of those rights to the national parliaments who have perfected them over the centuries. As for the Union, it would do better to devote itself to the top priority of the moment: the need to draft a Charter of the Rights of Nations."@en1

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