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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I shall of course begin by offering my condolences to the Spanish people and in particular to all the Members from Spain, and assuring them of my solidarity.
In this matter of approving a date for the European day commemorating the victims of terrorism, we must bear in mind the fact that it will have to be a date that the European Union can later uphold to be a world day or an international day, which is the purpose of the paragraph.
I must say that I support this proposal because, when he opened this sitting at 10 o’clock this morning, the President of our European Parliament, Mr Pat Cox, set an example to those of us who were here and able to pay our respects and gave us our cue in this matter. He clearly stated that this is not just an attack on the people of Spain. It is an attack in the middle of an electoral process; it is a direct attack on democracy and freedom. It is also the first attack of this magnitude on a European Union country. I therefore believe that nobody would understand it if – since, by sheer coincidence, we have to vote on this today – we did not choose 11 March to pay our respects to present and future victims, and also past ones, by choosing a European day.
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