Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-09-04-Speech-4-137"

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lpv:document identification number	"en.20030904.5.4-137"2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Bas Belder2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Delegation to the EU-Romania Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; EDD (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; AFCO (2002-09-25--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Member States of ASEAN, south-east Asia and the Republic of Korea (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 unknown; ChristenUnie - Staatkundig Gereformeerde Parti (2002-03-18--2004-07-19)3 vice-chair; Delegation for relations with the United States (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	". The annual report on global human rights in 2002 and the European Union's human rights policy by Mr van den Bos (D'66) broaches so many topics that it is difficult to see the wood for the trees. The rapporteur is getting under the EU Member States' feet with the suggestion that human rights policy should be dealt with at Community level. The report should have confined itself much more to enforcing human rights clauses in association and cooperation agreements, and to assessing their effectiveness. In this respect, the European institutions – the Council, the Commission and Parliament – should definitely search their own hearts. The report is right to denounce increasing extremism and fundamentalism, but fails to separate these expressions of perverted religion from religion itself. Anyone who does draw this distinction need not make a forced effort to keep religion out of political debate. Moreover, it then becomes immediately clear that the ideologies of socialism and liberalism are also subjective philosophies. Non-belief – not adhering to any faith – is also based on a choice of faith. Democratic politics is therefore never impartial. Finally, it is important to note that international human rights standards, however valuable they are, are not the ultimate standard against which human action will be judged. After all, the basis of this law lies in the human person, as if man were autonomous and made the law for himself. This subjectivity puts the universal claims of such law into perspective. According to my political belief, objective and universal law are only based on the Ten Commandments given to mankind by God, the Creator of all life. It is fortunate that a huge number of legal standards that apply in our European societies to this day are based on this. It would be sensible simply to recognise this. Only then can something positive be expected from an inter-religious or inter-cultural dialogue."@en1

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