Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-02-06-Speech-3-053"
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"Mr President, the European arrest warrant that is before us is an unqualified political, legal and procedural sham.
It is a procedural sham because the framework decision is already prepared and drafted. Everything was ratified at the Laeken Summit on 14 December 2001. The consultation of Parliament is therefore utterly illusory; it is worthless and I would even go as far as to say that it is insulting.
It is also a sham in substance, because its original purpose was to combat terrorism following the attacks of 11 September. In reality, the scope of the future arrest warrant was widened to include 32 offences, which means two things.
The first is that we are proposing to change from using a system of extradition between States, which guarantees individual freedoms, to a single legal system, without the representatives of the people being involved in this change.
The second is that, on the pretext of combating terrorism, the European arrest warrant will provide the basis for cracking down on the convictions that are included on the list in question. In the future, for example, for having criticised an immigration policy that a judge supports, or for having declared one’s national preference in one’s country, or for having expressed an opinion that is deemed politically or historically incorrect, a patriot could be expelled from his country, arrested, and transferred to another country that has an unfamiliar language and legal system.
What you are preparing is, in fact, not the Europe of security, which requires many other measures; you are preparing the Europe of uniformity, of power systems and of ready-made thinking. Big Brother is watching you."@en1
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