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"en.20030213.2.4-027"2
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"Madam President, I would like to use the mere seconds I have been given to speak in to firstly point out to my fellow Members that the government in my own country, Flanders, in Belgium, has, over the past few years and in the most outrageous way, been neglecting the drugs problem and trivialising drug use.
In my country the use of so-called soft drugs has been de facto legalised, and this has also been advertised to young people in television programmes with ministers in office acting as if they were smoking dope.
At this moment nobody in my country knows what is actually legally permitted and what is not legally or socially permitted, with all the extremely serious consequences this entails. Young people and children in my country currently do not know where they stand. What we ought to be sending out today is a signal from a Europe that is engaging in the fight against drugs in a serious and consistent way – by means of prevention, certainly, by supporting addicts and their families, certainly, but also if necessary by means of compulsory detoxification programmes for addicts and by means of the toughest possible penalties for drug dealers. I regret the fact that the present recommendations do not contain these two necessary components, and so I am unfortunately not able approve the report."@en1
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