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"Mr President, as the Member who has the honour of chairing the Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs, I would like to thank Commissioner Vitorino and Ministers Bodström and Klingvall for the spirit of loyal cooperation in which they have approached the construction of the area of freedom, security and justice.
Progress has been made in finding ways to work together in a policy field in which the Treaties are anything but satisfactory. But to say this throws some light on the difficulties we have encountered in the 18 months since the Tampere Summit: difficulties such as the need for separate legal arrangements in the first pillar and the third pillar; the need to cater for Member States which are members of Schengen and those which are not; the depressing predisposition of some Member States to pile headlong into individual initiatives before institutions have fully debated an overall approach.
The house that we are building for our citizens should be able to withstand an earthquake. Let us lay the most solid foundations – those of the Community framework in which architects, builders and surveyors work together in concert. Parliament has called for an annual report on the implementation of the area of freedom, security and justice. In welcoming the report that I have just received from the presidency, I note that it is essentially a list of actions. What we will need is an assessment of the impact of measures taken. Minister Klingvall said it is hard to comment on the case of the “East Sea” because it is a matter for individual Member States. Arguably that may be true for 24 hours; thereafter it is a matter for all of us. Surely, Minister, that is the whole point of the area of freedom, security and justice. Member States must understand that this is an area in which citizens want more Europe. We must rise to that challenge, not become bidders in a depressing downward auction of rights for our citizens or those arriving from elsewhere.
The Charter of Fundamental Rights is arguably the most important development that we have seen. We must incorporate it into the law of the Union for there is no area of freedom, security and justice without rights and there are no rights without judges."@en1
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