Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-10-02-Speech-2-057"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-10-02"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Asylum and immigration2
dcterms:Language	"da"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20011002.3.2-057"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-10-02-Speech-2-0582
lpv:speaker	lp:Ole Krarup2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Malta Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member_of_the_bureau; EDD (1999-07-20--2001-12-10)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Slovenia Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-09-28--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Folkebevægelsen mod EU (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with South-east Europe (1999-09-28--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"In Denmark, it has recently become public knowledge that Danish authorities have provided residence permits to outright war criminals, in particular the General responsible for the massacres of the Kurds under Saddam Hussein in 1988. This is, of course, scandalous, as the Danish right wing also acknowledges, but ought not the right wing to be content with the fact that the Danish NATO government has obtained military and political benefits from giving shelter to a war criminal? Ought not Saddam’s General to have earned his fare home long ago? Naturally, he has been debriefed by the CIA. That goes without saying. Very discreetly, of course, just as more and more crucial aspects of political life take place in ever more hermetically sealed rooms. This baroque situation reflects one of the ambivalent features of Mr Evans’s report, which is otherwise full of engaging features. The report endorses and further develops the finest legal principles we know. The Evans report centres upon persecuted human beings in a way that Mr Pirker’s, which is of course an expression of undisguised worker imperialism, does not. This is appealing and necessary. The problem is that these sound principles are part of political and legal contexts which will in practice reduce them to ideological window dressing. The common asylum and immigration policy is being used first and foremost as an engine for homogenising countries’ extremely different legal traditions by creating an area of freedom, security and justice that is the crucial link in the European superstate. The loser in this disagreeable game is democracy, and the benefit for refugees is doubtful unless one is a general in Saddam Hussein’s army."@en1

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