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"Mr President, the Charter has been a successful venture for all concerned and primarily, I believe, for Parliament. I see three benefits in it. The first has been the method selected, that of the Convention, which took the form of a judicious blend involving the competent representatives at national and European level, even if there was an extra guest at the table, as Commissioner Vitorino underlined. The three musketeers were in fact four, but they have indeed enabled a method to be set in place that we should turn to in the future to move matters forward within the European Union.
The second benefit has been the work carried on by the committee. Tribute should be paid to Mr Méndez de Vigo for the work that he has done. In particular, we have seen the significant weight that the EP Delegation has in any case been able to carry with regard to the amendments approved.
The third benefit has been that of the good work done by Parliament, something that any parliament would welcome. The quality of those who have spoken before me makes it unnecessary to linger on this point, but it is true that there is a real added value. The scope of the Charter respects the principle of subsidiarity and it was no easy task to draw up a text that was balanced in legal terms, but still attractive and accessible to the citizens.
The counterpart of this threefold benefit is a threefold responsibility. The first responsibility concerns our comments. I believe that we must look beyond the frustrations inherent in any consensus in order to praise this Charter, rather than dwelling on what we would have liked to have seen and still envisage.
The second responsibility is that of adopting the Charter. I would like to think that Parliament could, in November, adopt the Charter of Fundamental Rights with all due formality, because it is traditional for parliaments to act as the custodians of public freedoms, and the European Parliament must seize the opportunity to demonstrate this.
Lastly, the third responsibility is to follow up on this Charter, and we must show tenacity in this regard. We have voted, by a very large majority, for a resolution that calls for this Charter to be incorporated into the Treaties. I am aware that we already have a lot on our plate at Nice, and I am not convinced that it would be wise to ask for actual incorporation as early as Nice. What we can at least call for at Nice is a very precise timetable for the eventual incorporation of this Charter, even if, as legal experts have confirmed, it will have legal effect as soon as it is adopted by this House and by the Heads of Government, as there is nothing to stop the Court of Justice referring to it.
The end result is therefore a text that will be of great value within Europe, as many people have stressed. It is an asset for the people of Europe. I personally take pleasure in imagining that it could one day act as the preamble to a Constitution yet to be written. Lastly, with regard to the world outside Europe, I believe that human rights are the true message to come out of Europe. We now have a European handbook to send to our partners in their concentric circles – first to those who wish to join us and then to those with whom negotiations are being held."@en1
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