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"Yes, Mr President, I obviously support the opinion of the two previous speakers that it is indeed deplorable that the Council is treating Parliament – if you will forgive my putting it like this – in a rather offhand manner.
This situation is all the more regrettable because we all have obviously very important questions to put to the Council and because we are awaiting its reply.
I shall not repeat my question about the banning – improper, in my view – of a Basque newspaper, issued nine months ago by a judge, apparently under the influence of the Spanish Ministry of the Interior. For nine months, there has been no sense of urgency at all about discovering the reasons behind this obvious infringement of freedom of expression in connection with a newspaper – the only daily in the Basque language which, I would point out, is the most ancient language on our continent. Such a situation seems to me to have disastrous implications for freedoms. The concept of security is taking over our European Union, to the detriment of freedoms, and that is something I deplore. I should have liked the Council to have provided some explanations regarding this point. They would certainly have said to me in reply what they said to my fellow MEP, Mr Wynn, in which case I should have reminded them of what my colleague, Mrs McKenna, pointed out to them on the subject of the Treaty of Nice."@en1
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