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"Mr President, I would like to tell the rapporteur that he is mistaken. We are the ones on trial: it is not the Council that is being put to the test today but Parliament.
The Council has taken its decisions, and it took them in meetings held behind closed doors, in secret, decisions partially harmonising criminal law and criminal procedure.
In particular, the European arrest warrant, whose scope is much wider than just terrorism, is an incentive to introduce heavy prison sentences. Above all, in automatically recognising the decisions and procedures of national penal systems, it fails to lay down any common minimum guarantee safeguarding the rights of the defendant. These are guarantees that Parliament cannot afford to hope will be put in place just for the future for it is its duty to demand them for the immediate present, to demand, that is – and here I am addressing Mr Pirker – that the procedures be respected rather than merely lamenting the fact that they have not been. Parliament must demand that, to safeguard the Rule of Law, no fundamental principles are jeopardised."@en1
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