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"Mr President, if good intentions and earnest words could change the world, Mrs Boumedienne-Thiery’s congenial report would constitute a revolution. When, however, I read about all these rights couched in long words, I am led to think about a Danish politician who, back home in our windswept country, got elected on a programme designed to give a boost to cycle paths. It is the same refrain that underlies this report, namely the notion that rights are derived from words. In fact, rights are derived from social practice, struggle and political activity.
What also strikes me in this report is a detail of the tribute paid to the Charter of Fundamental Rights. I have nothing against rights – quite the contrary – but why was the European Union as such not allowed to accede to the European Convention on Human Rights? Its doing so would have achieved the same result. The reason is that there is another agenda whereby these rights are, to the very greatest degree, concerned with the actual process of integration, and it is this duplicity in the agenda that prompts me to make this observation."@en1
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