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"Mr President, the Daphne programme’s great mission is to raise public awareness, to ensure that there is an exchange of information, to try, in this way, to protect children, young people and women from all those situations of break-up and despair.
Underlying the texts of the recitals, there are the broken personal destinies of children and women who suffer physical violence, but also, and more insidiously, mental harassment. This issue concerns Europeans’ physical and mental health.
Direct or indirect violence towards anyone considered weak must be unequivocally condemned.
Personally, I have the impression that violence is on show between couples, in families, at work, on television or even in political and social life. Perversion, aggression, and predatory behaviour hold more fascination for us and we pay too little attention to the victims of the law of the jungle that prevails in today’s world.
Our age has refused to establish standards. It tolerates perversion because setting a limit today means an attempt to censure. We have lost our moral or religious boundaries and we are not able to become indignant unless the facts are visible, such as bruises on a face, or unless they come into the public domain, relayed by the media. Therefore we need information campaigns, and the Daphne programme will support these.
Violence takes place in a world without borders and is not something from distant, barbaric times. We are in 1999, in this Chamber in Strasbourg and we are discussing violence perpetrated against women and children in Europe. We are not in some mythical, cruel and obscurantist Middle Ages but on the threshold of the 21st century.
I firmly support the establishment of the Daphne programme; indeed we must support any initiative that aims to make this dark side of our society visible, as borders disappear in the face of all sorts of evil networks: prostitution, paedophilia and others, on the Internet for example.
Our States must therefore collaborate and exchange information. The European Union can provide added value to the action of its Members. But it is also incumbent on our States to protect these women and children and anyone harmed by society. The State knows its citizens because it knows their mentality, the culture that they have in their mind and in their society that it has, to some extent, moulded. It is up to the national States themselves to promote the family as a support structure and to create men liberated from these patterns of violence that they pass down from generation to generation."@en1
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