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The European Union, and the European Parliament in particular, do not have a very consistent view of the fight against terrorism at all.
I have risen on previous occasions to ask for increased border controls, including those controls at the internal borders of the Union. But this has not happened. What has in fact happened is that the policy on phasing out internal controls has been pursued unchanged. That is why, on Monday, at the debate on the Kessler report, I condemned the scheduled withdrawal of the ‘reporting of presence’ which, under the Schengen Convention, should be demanded of third country nationals who wish to move between European Union Member States.
We are today examining the last phase of the plan to create a European arrest warrant, which seeks to abolish, for certain offences, the former extradition system between EU Member States, which gave discretionary power to the executing State, but there is an obvious contradiction as far as this point is concerned.
We have seen the list of offences grow in size with the subsequent versions of the plan. However, the essential guarantees that we requested in our explanation of vote of 29 November 2001 have still not been included, such as the right for the judge of the executing country to properly check the validity of the request and for the new system not to apply to the nationals of the executing country as they should continue to enjoy maximum protection.
The European Parliament is prepared to turn a blind eye to all these anomalies, because they are helping to build a super-State. At our previous sitting, however, Parliament did not hesitate to vote in favour of a resolution that refused to facilitate the extradition of terrorists or potential terrorists, who have been arrested in the EU, to the United States. It would, in fact, have been important to make a gesture in relation to this issue, because the United States is now facing a battle to protect the whole of the western world.
We are, therefore, trying to achieve too much with the European arrest warrant, which is dangerous. And we are not doing enough to support the United States against terrorism and this is shocking."@en1
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