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To pursue the reasoning behind my intervention in the debate, I wish to emphasise that this report can only be supported enthusiastically by those who share the basic philosophy of the rapporteur, most candidly expressed when he spoke to us here on this very issue on 14 March 2000, saying ‘The Charter represents an opportunity to construct a modern post-national society’. In fact, quite contrary to the statements made in the resolution and during the debate, there is still a serious risk that the Charter, if incorporated into the Treaties and given legal value, will be immediately appropriated in the most imprudent way by a militant and fired-up minority. Next, it will be thrown off course, so as to effectively limit the competences of the Member States to a very considerable degree, precisely where the central core of the sovereignty and self-determination of their peoples are concerned, tending to superimpose itself on the systems of fundamental rights of the Member States and to subordinate them entirely. A year and a half of its being in force in all but name, with various bodies behaving ‘as if’ the Charter were directly applicable, they are proving this in a dangerous way, and it is regrettable that Parliament is willingly moving towards this disaster and is not speaking out forcefully to defend the rule of law and the rules established in the Treaties."@en1
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