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"We do not doubt that these five years you have been with us in Parliament will help you to communicate this very serious problem to the European Council.
A few days before the deplorable events which unfolded in Genoa during the G8 meeting, the 15 Foreign Ministers unanimously endorsed the decisions by the Interior Ministers on security at EU summit meetings and other conferences of equivalent importance. Will the Council say: did the Italian authorities call for the setting-up of a team of police officers or intelligence service officials to act as liaison officers who could be seconded from the Member States from which groups of troublemakers originate (Article 1(b)) and for all the legal technical means to be deployed to achieve a more structured exchange of information concerning troublemakers on the basis of files held in the various Member States? (Article 2(d)). If so, which governments of the 15 Member States have responded?
Question No 5 by Ioannis Patakis ():
The unanimous Council decisions on taking repressive measures ahead of the Genoa Summit provided the political backing the Italian government needed for the events that took place there. Once again, a summit has been marred by the excessive use of force and savage repression. After the bloodshed in Göteborg, more blood has been shed in Genoa: the Italian police and army launched an even more savage attack against peaceful demonstrators protesting about globalisation and expressing their opposition to decisions taken without, and at the expense of, the peoples of the G7+1, the EU and other political and economic organisations. The outcome of this summit is: a number of deaths, dozens of injuries, mass expulsions and arrests and the brutal violation of democratic freedoms and even of the Community principle of freedom of movement.
Since this summit was attended by the leaders of the four largest and dominant States in the EU and since the statements both by the Belgian Presidency and the other governments of the EU on the events at Genoa suggest that there will be a more violent and bloody response to demonstrations at future summit meetings, starting with Laeken, will the Council say whether it is aware of the very onerous political responsibility it bears for its decisions of 13 and 16 July to take repressive measures and whether it intends to revoke them, given that they are in flagrant breach of democratic freedoms and human rights, such as freedom of movement, of assembly and of expression, which were brutally violated in Genoa?
Question No 6 by Hans-Peter Martin ():
Following the disturbances which marked the EU’s Göteborg Summit and the G8 summit in Genoa, and taking particular account of the moves to have EU summits held exclusively in Belgium in the future, what implications does the Council foresee for summit meetings of this kind? What conclusions should be drawn regarding the organisation of, and the scale of, the agendas for such meetings?
As they deal with the same subject, Questions Nos 3, 4, 5 and 6 will be taken together.
Question No 3 by Herman Schmid ():
In response to the chaotic situation which arose in Göteborg during the EU summit in June, when police and demonstrators clashed, it has been suggested in various Member States that it ought to be possible for the EU’s rapid reaction force to be deployed to control riots and civil disturbances. Anders Mellbourn, the head of the Swedish Foreign Policy Institute, for example, wrote in Dagens Nyheter on 24 June:
‘This probably means that the police will have to be supplemented by some kind of riot police units which possess a combination of police and military training. This is hardly the kind of task to entrust to conscripts: it calls for professional soldiers or else police with military training. Operational cooperation between the police forces and the military of several EU countries is required […] It is not easy for the EU to bring together a standing force of 5 000 police officers for civil crisis management. Dialogue to prevent conflict needs to be supplemented by increased intelligence activity. All this is also needed in order to be able to contribute to effective conflict- and crisis-management in the Balkans or the Middle East. But it is also needed – albeit, one hopes, rarely – to cope with certain domestic crises in Sweden or neighbouring EU countries.’
Does the Council agree that in future it ought to be possible for the EU’s rapid reaction force to be deployed within the Union itself when situations such as that in Göteborg arise?
Question No 4 by Alexandros Alavanos ():"@en1
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"Subject: Future of EU Council summits following the events in Göteborg and Genoa"1
"Subject: The EU’s rapid reaction force in Sweden"1
"Subject: The G8 meeting and security at summit meetings and other conferences of equivalent importance"1
"Subject: Violation of basic democratic freedoms and human rights in Genoa"1
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