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"Mr President, I would firstly like to welcome this report and thank the rapporteur for her work and I would also like to welcome what Commissioner Vitorino said in relation to the procedure to be followed in order to be able to hold a genuine annual debate on human rights in the European Union. This has historically been a conflictive report, to the shame of this Parliament. In this house we are capable of deciding on a weekly basis what the human rights problems are in any corner of the world, but we are not capable of agreeing once a year on what standards should be complied with within the European Union in relation to fundamental rights. The charter should be a good instrument for measuring them. We are moving in the right direction, formulas are developing so that we can work jointly with the Commission. This work involves the political control, as the rapporteur said, of the degree of compliance, in each of the Member States, with the fundamental rights in the Union. While this is happening, while we are evolving, we should have the generosity to do it together and to do it well. I believe Mrs Swiebel’s report is a balanced report, because it is sincere and transparent, it mentions sources, without judging them, it does not oblige us to vote against or in favour of certain facts, but it draws attention to existing complaints which the executives must investigate and assess. I would point out to Mr Cornillet that this report has always been controversial. Just last year, Mr Cornillet, your report, which, according to you, moved in the right direction, was approved unanimously by the Socialists and with more than one hundred votes from your own group against and only 38 in favour. I believe that amongst all of us we can make an effort to find the main route to the positive development of the control of human rights within the European Union."@en1

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