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"Madam President, the aim of today’s debate is to take stock of the fight against terrorism one year on from 11 September. How has the EU reacted to this tragic event? It has demonstrated its solidarity and will to support the United States, it has alerted people to the risk of linking terrorism to the Islamic Arab world and has speeded up integration in the fight against terrorism by means of an action plan consisting of more than 60 measures and a series of framework decisions, including the European arrest warrant and police cooperation in the fight against terrorism. It has highlighted the urgent need to find political means to resolve conflicts on which terrorist fanaticism feeds, not least the Israeli-Palestinian question.
The determination to eradicate terrorism and the urgent need to set up new and effective instruments to achieve this cannot, under any circumstances, disproportionately affect individual rights, freedoms and guarantees. It is the affirmation of the intangibility of fundamental rights that underpins a public authority’s legitimacy to use force in democracies. By the same token, the relentless fight against the terrorist threat must be definitively limited under international law. Totalitarian societies hold the primacy of the law in contempt both at national level and in international relations. The concept of international legality is the invention of democracies. If the States that have fallen victim to terrorism react to this threat by breaching the rules and principles of international law, they will be giving the criminals an unexpected boost, which would also constitute a step backwards for civilisation.
The fanatical hatred that leads human beings to attack others and to commit suicide is often fed by ongoing situations of injustice or humiliation. This fact must not be interpreted as any kind of justification for the odious attacks against civilian populations but as a factor that is crucial to understanding this phenomenon of violence. At the strictly European level, we must here emphasise and condemn the inability and lack of will persistently demonstrated by the governments of the Member States to follow up the proposal to harmonise policies and to create common instruments to combat terrorism that were put forward, in a timely manner, by the Commission. Terrorism is a threat that requires an integrated and supranational response. Within European territory, this response is still failing to give sufficient signs of life."@en1
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