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"Mr President, Commissioner, I believe that this forthcoming summit can undoubtedly be a success if the factors stemming from Parliament’s debates and which are written down in this report are in fact taken account of.
I should like here to seize quite specifically upon one particular point. I was particularly pleased to see that the report has dealt not only with the reform of the treaties and of procedures, and therefore was not just worded in general terms, but has in the last analysis declared itself in favour of setting and specifying priorities to the effect, for example, that progress must be achieved in the interests of the security of Europe and its citizens in connection with the further development of the area of freedom, security and justice, and that relevant procedures must be established so that this becomes a reality. In that way, citizens will be given a signal and main focus.
In the report, a goal is also formulated which I consider to be particularly important, namely that Europe must be seen by its citizens to be transparent and to be conducting a more open debate. This, too, I consider to be absolutely necessary, as well as being a good opportunity, especially in connection with the development of the area of freedom, security and justice. We can show here that, in circumstances where the Member States are at their wits’ end, Europe can, in the last analysis, be helpful to the individual.
If it is a fact of life that organised crime earns billions which, by being introduced into the legal economic cycle, damages our legitimate systems, indeed society as a whole, then we need Europol and we need European cooperation in the field of justice. If the drug trade already constitutes 8% of the volume of trade worldwide, then we must develop Europol as a European institution. If 400,000 asylum seekers are already coming to Europe each year, then we need relevant European regulations. By that, I mean that this report addresses something very real and contains elements which signify a genuine opportunity for the Helsinki Summit. We shall see whether, at this summit, Europe’s representatives can in actual fact avail themselves, in the interests of our citizens, of this chance to create more transparency and more opportunities for the individual. We can only hope so."@en1
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