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While agreeing with some of the concrete concerns expressed in the report about, in particular, women’s rights, and while approving some amendments which point the way to progress, we do not intend to support the European Union’s claim that ‘respect for, and promotion of, human rights and fundamental freedoms… constitute fundamental objectives of EU foreign policy’.
Within the European Union, one of the fundamental rights of man, the right to make an adequate living from his labour, is being trampled underfoot for nearly 20 million men and women. A fairly substantial proportion of immigrant workers, those regarded as not having the proper papers, is being deprived of any legal existence.
All the while, outside the European Union, several of its Member States, among the most powerful of them, are supporting, arming and financing vile dictatorships, especially in their former colonial empire.
And what about that manifestation of respect for human rights that took the form, for several weeks, of bombing Kosovo and Serbia?
Under these circumstances, we are abstaining from the vote on this report."@en1
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