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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I will be relatively brief. I only have four objections: one about the past, one about yesterday, in a manner of speaking, one about tomorrow, although I really mean the day after tomorrow, and one about the future. Let me start with the past.
I think that the concept of creating a European area of freedom, security and justice first saw the light of day about 25 years ago. I think that we have taken a number of essential steps in the right direction without crowing about it, but also without achieving the results we want to achieve. We did not – and I would like to say this here in the European Parliament – have to organise a witch-hunt or use Gestapo-style practices. On the contrary, anyone who has read the Watson report and the advice from the European Parliament and who knows the position of the Ministers of Justice and Home Affairs and that of the Commission, knows that we do not use such methods.
However, yesterday – and I am now thinking back to Tampere 1999 when we took the decision to put a series of recommendations to the Ministers of Justice and Home Affairs – I discovered that since then we have in fact been correctly following the three paths that were delineated there to create this area, namely those of harmonisation, mutual cooperation and the creation of players.
Tomorrow, and by that I mean the day after tomorrow, I hope that at the Laeken Summit we will give new impetus to the Amsterdam resolutions and the Tampere recommendations that have not yet been implemented. I am saying this here with all the more conviction because I believe that there are two areas to which attention absolutely must be paid: the fight against trafficking in human beings and the fight against the sexual and economic exploitation of children.
And finally to the future. I have often heard people say that we would have to choose between freedom and security, but I do not think that is necessary. Justice and security are two instruments that are necessary in order to guarantee freedoms. A pertinent comment that I often hear, and one that we cannot ignore, is that we will have to ask ourselves about institutional decision-making and more specifically whether unanimity should be maintained in the third pillar. These are a number of objections that I wanted to put to the European Parliament at the end of this debate."@en1
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