Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-04-21-Speech-3-304"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2004-04-21"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Human rights in 2003 and EU policy2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20040421.12.3-304"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2004-04-21-Speech-3-3052
lpv:speaker	lp:Philip Claeys2
lpv:spokenAs	member; NA (2003-06-16--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Vlaams Blok (2003-06-16--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport (2003-07-02--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2003-07-03--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I get the disagreeable feeling that the rapporteur sees the fight against terrorism as just as big a problem as terrorism itself. This remark was made repeatedly during the discussion of the report in committee. It was emphatically denied, but the final version of the report has in any event not been able to take away this feeling. Formally, terrorism is condemned – just as well – whereupon the report spends many paragraphs on the human rights of terrorists or those accused of terrorist acts. Similarly, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict lacks any sense of nuance: Palestinian terror attacks and the construction of the security wall, for example, are bracketed together. We in this European Parliament should seriously consider whether reports such as this one are useful. Moreover, this is a report on human rights in the world, which means the world outside of the European Union, while we would perhaps do well to look closer to home. Today of all days, the court in Belgium is passing judgment in a court case against the most important Flemish opposition party, the a case instituted by a government body in which all the traditional parties have a seat, including that to which the rapporteur belongs. What we are now witnessing in Belgium is the instrumentalisation of the fight against racism, or what should pass as such, in order to curb the right to the free expression of opinion. With the elections only a few weeks away, attempts are being made to rob a democratic opposition party of its funding and even to have a court impose a ban on it. You will appreciate that I have my reservations when someone who condones practices such as these is rapporteur today of a report on human rights in the world."@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Vlaams Blok"1 "de facto"1

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