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"Madam President, for reasons that are sometimes hard to admit, Europe is helpless in the face of terrorism. Most Member States have no anti-terrorist legislation, prison sentences vary from State to State and the tracking of criminals outside the territory in which a crime is committed is only possible – when it is at all possible – by means of the extradition mechanism, which is always subject to the limitations of the reciprocity and constitutionality of each Member State.
Terrorism in Europe, consequently, slips through the net. Fortunately, the Treaty of Amsterdam, the Tampere Council and our own Commissioner António Vitorino have brought about changes in judicial cooperation in Europe. For this purpose, in this excellent report by Mr Watson, the European Parliament recommends that the Council lay down minimum rules for a definition of the constituent elements of the crime and its sanctions, replacing extradition with the principle of the mutual recognition of judgments, the definition of a European search and arrest warrant that does not allow criminals to laugh at the courts and the police, and standards for harmonisation in the field of compensation.
Madam President, in addition to these penal and legal matters, we must also ensure that intellectual prejudices and outdated historical opinions do not continue to portray terrorism in the heroic and romantic light of a fight for freedom. Freedom is guaranteed in constitutional States, which, today, all Member States of the European Community, fortunately, are. François Mitterand taught us that nationalism is war and we are today seeing, very close to us and right under our eyes, in the name of various cultures, languages, regionalisms and religions, murders, deaths and violence that Europe cannot tolerate. Europe must either trust in its values or become diluted in their opposites. Terrorism is the main weapon of madness and of ethnic, religious or cultural fanaticism. It is the opposite of freedom and of life. Let us rid Europe of it, with the full might and power of the law."@en1
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