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"The European Union is poorly placed to give lessons on human rights. Amongst others, it invokes the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, but it does not respect them. What has it done to put an end to the scandalous haemorrhage that repayment of debt represents for the countries of the south? The Member States do not pay the WHO the money it needs to combat AIDS or tuberculosis, because the Maastricht criteria require reductions in public deficits. ‘A more consistent crisis prevention policy’ presupposes removing the oil multinationals from positions where they can do damage, like Total Fina Elf, whose war-mongering role in southern Sudan and Congo is increasingly apparent.
Furthermore, the European Union must respect the right of asylum and the 1951 Convention by getting rid of waiting areas and detention centres, and not by ‘stricter visa requirements’ as the report recommends. That is urgent. Nor is it enough to ‘regret’ that the Roma are victims of serious discrimination. They must be granted asylum and collective expulsions, carried out, for example and in particular, by Belgium, must be condemned. The right to asylum can only be respected and human traffic effectively combated through freedom of movement and a policy to regularise the position of all those without papers.
As for freedom of the press and the battle against excessive media concentration, a populist predator in charge of Italy provides an instructive image of liberal Europe’s doublespeak."@en1
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