Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/1999-12-01-Speech-3-102"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"1999-12-01"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Annual report on human rights2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.19991201.9.3-102"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:1999-12-01-Speech-3-1032
lpv:speaker	lp:Catherine Lalumière2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 vice-chair; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Parti radical de gauche (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; PES (1999-07-20--2001-05-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Madam President-in-Office of the Council, Commissioner, I too welcome this first annual European Union report on human rights. Obviously, we have had Commission documents and many European Parliament reports in the past, but this is the first time that the Council of Ministers has given us this type of text. This demonstrates a welcome desire for transparency. It will, I hope, improve the information given to the public on the specific actions carried out between June 1998 and June 1999 and on the instruments and means available to the EU. My only criticism is that this report is probably over-optimistic. Inadequacies and grey areas are hardly mentioned. However, the publication of this document encourages me to look to the near future and the preparation of an EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. This project, which must be part of the IGC’s work and which could be completed by the end of the year 2000, is of major importance for the Union, for all those living within the Union and for the applicant states. Yet we currently have no guarantee that this text will meet expectations. In particular, we fear that the European Council and the Council of Ministers have only very limited ambitions, namely to draft a mere declaration without any legal or binding force. If this were to be the case, the European Union would lose all credibility in its own eyes and in the eyes of the rest of the world. In addition, there is a concern about the risks of competition and even contradiction between this future Charter and existing texts which have indisputable force. I am referring, of course, to the Council of Europe’s European Convention on Human Rights. I hope, Madam President-in-Office of the Council, that the Helsinki Summit will reassure us on all these points. You are personally well acquainted with these issues."@en1

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