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"I was very happy to learn, last June, that the Cologne European Council had decided to convene a Convention (made up of representatives of the Heads of State and Government, the European Parliament, the national parliaments and the Commission) that would be responsible for drafting a Charter of Fundamental Rights.
Let me conclude by saying that this Charter must form the key component of a process leading to the drafting of a European Union constitution.
That Charter will be a vital step towards the political deepening of the European Union, under the appropriate conditions. It will, in fact, enable us to make up for shortcomings that have existed ever since the growth in the powers of the European Union and the European Community, with the European institutions taking decisions that affect the life of the people of Europe more and more directly. These people need a document to which they can refer when they take their case before the European Court of Justice. So we must provide for direct resort to that Court in accordance with certain procedures.
The Charter will also help define a ‘collective patrimony of values and principles and a shared system of fundamental rights which bind citizens together and underpin the Union’s internal policies’, a patrimony we must constantly defend against the racist and xenophobic tendencies that have, alas, not disappeared.
As the representative of the people of the European Union, our Parliament must take a very careful look at the contents of this document. The people of Europe expect us to take a very bold approach here. Our demands are quite clear.
The Charter must have fully binding legal status by being incorporated in the Treaty. To that end, the Committee on Constitutional Affairs calls on the Council to put the Charter on the ICG agenda.
Any amendment of the Charter must come under the same procedure as its original drafting procedure, which means it would require the assent of the European Parliament. The European Parliament must approve any secondary legislation that might have a bearing on these fundamental rights.
The indivisibility of these fundamental rights must be recognised by making the Charter applicable to all the European Union’s institutions and bodies and all its policies, including those contained in the second and third pillars, in the context of the powers and functions conferred upon it by the Treaty.
The Charter must be binding upon the Member States when applying or transposing provisions of Community law.
Turning to the actual content of the Charter, it would seem advisable to divide up these rights into three categories. The Charter would enshrine the
directly related to European citizenship, such as the right to vote, the right of petition, the right to appeal to the ombudsman; the
i.e. all the rights protected by the various international organisations and the new rights (bioethics, protection of personal data); and the
i.e. the right to a minimum wage, the right to strike, the right to unemployment benefit."@en1
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"rights of the individual"1
"social rights"1
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