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"en.20000316.3.4-138"2
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"British Conservatives are in the forefront of those seeking to improve human rights in many parts of the world. While there is much in the Malmström resolution that we can support, unfortunately there are significant elements that have been included which we find unacceptable.
For example, we do not share the enthusiasm for an EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. We are sceptical about demands for substantial increases in expenditure and bureaucratic activity and in the role of EC-funded NGOs. We are concerned that it is minority differences that are stimulated, with little emphasis on integration. We are concerned at the extension of the concept of human rights to include, for example, domestic violence, which is properly a matter to be handled under other legal instruments. We are opposed to the introduction of sweeping new categories of eligibility for asylum, which would be open to abuse. Many of us do not support the abolition of capital punishment in principle. And we are suspicious about proposals to impose further codes of conduct on business.
While we value the role of the EU in supporting human rights, we believe that human rights regulation and legislation, as in so many areas dealing with the relationship between the citizen and the state, is a matter for national governments, and we do not welcome an extension of EU intervention in this area.
It is for these reasons that British Conservatives have voted against the Malmström resolution."@en1
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