Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-11-14-Speech-2-018"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-11-14"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Charter of Fundamental Rights2
dcterms:Language	"de"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20001114.2.2-018"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-11-14-Speech-2-0192
lpv:speaker	lp:Sylvia-Yvonne Kaufmann2
lpv:spokenAs	vice-chair; EUL/NGL (1999-10-13--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 vice-chair; Delegation for relations with Japan (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 member; AFCO (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Partei des Demokratischen Sozialismus (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	". Madam President, the Charter of Fundamental Rights is a very important project for the future of European integration and it has my support. Why? First, because it secures the rights of our citizens vis-à-vis the institutions and bodies of the European Union. Secondly, because it plugs a gap in the protection of fundamental rights for people living in the Union. Thirdly, because the Charter also ensures that the current level of protection in the European Human Rights Convention also applies in the Union; in fact, at some points, it goes even further than the European Human Rights Convention. Fourthly, because the Charter – and this is particularly important for me – is based on indivisible civil and political human rights and fundamental social rights. As a member of the convention, I argued for even further-reaching social rights, especially for the right to work and to a minimum, subsistence-level income to be enshrined in the Charter which, given the current social charter, it should have been. Nonetheless, I share the overall appraisal of the European Trade Union Confederation that, despite the narrow interpretation of social rights, the Charter of Fundamental Rights is an important step on the road towards a social Europe and a citizens' Europe and is a decided improvement over the present situation. Madam President, I think that what we need now, especially in the run up to Nice, is a comprehensive public debate with our citizens on the text of the Charter; we must also consider how to give them the opportunity to agree to this Charter. I personally am in favour of a European referendum on the Charter, as this would enable the very citizens of Europe to give us democratic authorisation to press ahead and build up Europe."@en1

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