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"Anyone establishing fundamental rights in the European Union must know whether these rights are being observed seriously by the governments concerned. It is to Mrs Swiebel’s credit that she has documented so well how much is wrong in Europe in the area of human rights. She correctly focuses attention on police misconduct, abuses in prisons, discrimination against ethnic minorities, failings in criminal proceedings and the vestiges of inequalities between men and women. This also applies to child labour, the access of non-EU citizens to the labour market, the difficulties people have in obtaining the nationality of the country in which they are now living, and the lack of the right to vote for those who have not yet obtained this nationality. EU Member States are apparently failing to ratify international treaties on national minorities, cross-border television, the revised European Social Charter and the status of adopted or illegitimate children. Minors are being used as child soldiers. Excessively authoritarian security measures that are now being justified with reference to the current threat of terrorism are threatening to become permanent. We are very much in need of this inventory so that we can put an end to abuses more effectively. It is striking that this report, which speaks for itself, was only adopted by the Committee on Citizens’ Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs by 25 votes to 20. Evidently there is a large minority in this Parliament that does not want to tackle the existing violations of fundamental rights."@en1
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