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"Mr President, I would firstly like to thank and congratulate Mr Bourlanges on his report, not only on its content, but on his ability to accept the many amendments we have presented to him. I thank you for that, Mr Bourlanges.
I am going to restrict myself to two comments on what this new stage in the development of the European policing area of freedom and justice may mean.
The first is that, in the field of security of the Tampere Summit, I would stress two initiatives which I believe have been very significant in terms of creating this area. Firstly, the European arrest warrant, which was undoubtedly the consequence of the horrendous attacks of 11 September, and secondly, the action plan against terrorism, which was also the consequence of the horrendous attacks in Madrid, initiatives which we owe largely to Mr Vitorino. Today, I believe, is a good day to acknowledge this.
An area of freedom and justice, however, cannot be built on the basis of responses or reactions to attacks and we do not want to see the third significant initiative relating to this area being taken following attacks. We must be capable of replacing reaction with initiative and replacing isolated measures, although they may be part of a plan, with a genuine political plan.
The second consideration must provide us with a methodology on which to base this second phase in the development of the area. Firstly, diagnosis: the Council must ask the governments what the main security problem facing those countries is and we need to identify the main problem affecting the security of the Europeans. Like Mr Vitorino, I believe that today it is Islamist terrorism and that, in my view, is the main security problem facing the Europeans.
Secondly, following this diagnosis, we must understand that a political project is more than an action plan; it is not simply a series of measures, it requires effort by the governments, the Council and the Commission in order to deal with the problem. Terrorism cannot be dealt with in a generalised fashion. We have to decide how we are going to deal with a specific terrorist organisation in a specific way. And, after the diagnosis and after the political project, we will then know exactly how to shape and define a European police and judicial area. But that is the order in which we must do things, not the other way round, as is the case sometimes.
I will end by saying that a European area of freedom, security and justice must be twinned with the diagnosis of a problem and must be efficient in order to resolve problems. And if we are not capable of being efficient and if we do not relate the area to the resolution of the problem, there will be no common police and judicial area."@en1
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