Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-09-03-Speech-3-174"
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"Mr President, this report wants us to believe that the European Union has a major role to play as regards human rights at global scale.
It is a fact that in the wealthy countries of Western Europe and in the United States, personal rights and freedoms are slightly better protected than among the poor majority of the planet, as long as you do not look too closely. As long as you close your eyes to the hunt for immigrants, the so-called ‘
the deportation orders, the laws against poor people, as long as you forget that many people are refused the right to decent housing. As long as you ignore the fact that in a country such as France freedom of expression stops at factory doors, that distributing a political pamphlet inside can be justification for dismissal. As long as you forget that in some EU countries basic rights are refused to women, such as the choice of whether or not to have a child. As long as you believe that it is normal that the right to employment, to a decent wage is not recognised as a fundamental right and is not applied. Even though limited human rights are only assured in wealthy countries because they are refused to the poor people of the planet, it is precisely the wealthy countries, so proud of their human rights at home, that maintain in the poor countries a number of terrible regimes, based on oppression and, in particular, on endless misery."@en1
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