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"Mr President, following the attacks on 11 September, it is incumbent upon us to come up with a response appropriate to this tremendous challenge, to ensure justice is done and to prevent further attacks.
Europe’s response must amount to more than the solidarity called for earlier in the House. It must be an active response, defending specific values. I am not referring, as Mr Berlusconi might, to Western values or to Christian civilisation. I have in mind genuine democratic values. These must be defended wherever the freedom to do so exists. Where it does not, they must be established and nurtured. Success can only be guaranteed through long-term support by the governments committed to this fight.
In the face of the serious threat to humanity terrorism represents, we are called upon to take action and to get it right. We must abide by the rules when taking action against those who have no rules. We have to get it right, but getting it right cannot in this context mean taking spectacular action. Getting it right has to mean identifying those responsible and dealing with the key figures. It involves destroying their networks and preventing them from organising new ones. All this takes time, and calls for cooperation between judges and police at international level, together with mutual political trust between governments. It will be a long and difficult process but believe me, it is the only way to defend democracy from fanaticism and barbarism.
A genuine common foreign security and defence policy for the European Union is called for. The Union also needs a common approach to legal and home affairs. The European search and arrest warrant will be an essential element of this but by no means the only one.
Clearly, this joint European action requires us to set ourselves high standards. No European leader should jeopardise the joint response, as Mr Berlusconi’s government has just done. The legislation it has recently endorsed is diametrically opposed to the approach adopted by this House. It is also in opposition to the 21 September Council resolution we all applauded here today.
I should like to put some questions to the Council and the Commission. What action will the Council take to ensure that it speaks with one voice, as Mr Michel was saying this morning? Also, how does it intend to deal with that thorn in its flesh, namely the Berlusconi doctrine?"@en1
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