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"Mr President, the European Parliament is now establishing a policy, that is to say a drugs policy, which has emerged in fits and starts over a period of many years. It is a firm drugs policy. Thanks are due to all who have contributed to formulating it including, naturally enough on this particular day, the rapporteur Mrs Giannakou-Koutsikou, but also Sir Jack Stewart-Clark who has worked with these questions in previous years.
May I perhaps emphasise that it is rather striking that I in particular, as a Swede, am very impressed indeed by this Parliament’s ability to produce what I consider to be a firm drugs policy. In fact, we Swedes have a fairly definite view of these questions.
I think we can now count upon seeing good results in the field of drugs policy. I am particularly pleased that it is the Group of the European People’s Party’s drugs programme which in fact forms the basis of the present compromise. There are features which will mean that we embark upon a common road towards fewer drugs and with the goal of leading both society and individuals away from drugs and towards the long-term goal of a society without drugs.
Once these measures which are now being proposed have taken effect, I believe that there will emerge in the Member States a greater sympathetic understanding of the differences between their respective policies. It is therefore important that it should be precisely that policy which is the best policy which should stand as an example. I should therefore like to urge the Commission to ensure in particular that the new Member States also have the opportunity to be present when the project is devised. In my own country, many people, it is true, feel rather discriminated against in this area. If we are bad at carrying out projects, we should like to improve. We should, however, also like to be present when assessments of on-going projects are carried out so that we might see which road the European Union will continue to go down.
It is also important that we should comply with the laws of the different countries. We cannot, in this European Union, step into some kind of grey area of a community governed by law and not comply with our legislation. If we do not want to comply with our legislation, we must change our legislation and not pursue some kind of policy which does not follow the rules of a State governed by law.
I should like to thank you for the efforts which have been made and urge us all to be very much more committed in the future. We are not there yet by any means. Rather, there is a very great deal of work which remains to be done. Unfortunately, many of the amendments on the table here in this Chamber place obstacles in the way, so I hope that many of them will be rejected."@en1
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