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"Mr President, on the subject of the Counter-Terrorism Coordinator, I believe it is a delusion to take the shortcut of getting the national bureaucracies to cooperate without any democratic or judicial control. As with Europol, with Eurojust it is not just a matter of individual rights and freedoms, however serious these issues may be, but also a problem of effectiveness: indeed, you have not succeeded in conferring true powers on this coordinator for the fight against terrorism. This is not consistent with someone who wants to see more effective counter-terrorism measures and a faster reaction capability, someone who wants not less democracy – which is the dream of all bureaucracies – but more democracy and more rule of law. If creating Mr Counter-Terrorism is to be the paradigm for the new Constitution that we want, any modest increase in powers at the expense of giving up democracy and the rule of law is not the road that we want to go down.
A final word on Iraq. The European Union is calling for the UN, but it is calling for it to cover up its own inability. The terrorists have a political agenda, a political goal, which is the withdrawal of Europe – or what is left of Europe – from Iraq. We would have preferred it if the European Union had had the strength to choose, to propose and to decide to do the opposite of what the terrorists want."@en1
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