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lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, it feels important to debate this issue with you – an issue which, too, is about the best interests of the child. We had the pleasure of discussing this yesterday with you, as well. The fact that we have this regulation on the agenda is also a very good way indeed of celebrating children’s rights. I know that rapporteur Gebhardt was thinking of just that point when drafting the amendments which I hope the Commission will adopt. In these, she pleads that, whatever judgements are made and whatever concrete steps are taken in this area, they should be so expressly with children’s best interests in mind. Thank you, Evelyne Gebhardt, for these amendments. I also take the view, expressed by all the previous speakers, that this is needed in the mobile Europe of today. It is needed in the mobile Europe of today where, despite this mobility, we still experience discrimination. For example, articles 16 and 18 are needed so that cases of child abduction do not have to lead to judicial reviews. We know of course that child abduction and the prospect of a subsequent judicial review can lead to tremendously heart-rending conflicts. I also share the view of Mrs Wallis, a colleague from my group, that we must go further, partly through supporting her amendments but also, I hope, through the Commissioner’s seeing new possibilities in the light of the Tampere Summit as to how we might go further in this area. Take, for example, maintenance disputes (an issue I understood not to be covered by this proposal), that is to say the financial aspect of the dissolution of a marriage, together with the issue of parental responsibility. These questions are not dealt with here but can in practice also involve problems which are tremendously difficult to solve. I also want to ask for colleagues’ support when our Group supports Amendment No 3, together with the corresponding amendment from Mr Lehne’s opinion as delivered to the committee responsible. In this way, we shall be able to reform the Nordic Convention in the same area. I hope that it will be possible for the Nordic Convention to go further and support the same objectives, but in that case we shall also need the explanations which were to be found in the opinion delivered on this proposal by the Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market. Finally, I want to say that the present partnership should aim to create a situation in which we begin to rely more upon each other in Europe."@en1

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