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A Convention, made up of 62 delegates from the governments of the fifteen Member States and members of European and national parliaments draws up a Charter of Fundamental Rights for over 380 million Europeans.
This Charter lags some way behind the European Convention on Human Rights, and behind national conventions or treaties. It is an accurate reflection of the liberal Europe which is being built. On subjects as basic as women’s rights, immigrants’ rights, the right to education, the right to accommodation, the right to employment or a decent wage, this Charter is often inadequate and occasionally retrogressive.
Because social rights are fundamental rights for a Europe that respects democratic and social rights and freedoms, we champion the idea of another charter to protect workers, women, foreigners, those excluded from society, national minorities. This Charter should be drawn up by the social movement, not by an inner sanctum of elected representatives.
Because we think that the process of European integration warrants a genuine democratic public debate, there can be no political construction of Europe without social rights or democracy.
This is why I did not vote in favour of this draft Charter. I shall be voting for an alternative charter by participating in the demonstrations in Biarritz on 13 and 14 October and in Nice on 7 December 2000."@en1
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