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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I can inform you that the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats cannot lend its support to the draft recommendation we are discussing today, because it does not provide answers to the major challenges on which the EU should focus its future drugs strategy.
Recent figures about drug use among young people are alarming. An increasing number of young people start experimenting, and at an ever-younger age, with soft drugs, in particular, which are made ever more accessible by the falling prices for them. I believe that the rapporteur, in his report, is minimising the problem, and I see this as clearly inappropriate in this situation. On the contrary, the situation requires a bold and comprehensive approach with only one goal in mind: that of reducing the use of drugs and all their adverse consequences. The Commission’s assessment report and the annual report of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction prove that a great deal is yet to be done, including at European level.
The European policy should, as the Commissioner stated, add value to the differentiated approach in the different Member States in terms of coordination, information, scientific research and the tackling of the cross-border drugs trade and crime that goes hand in hand with that. We believe that, if such a policy is to be adopted, a separate budget line should be created for supporting new initiatives and promoting the exchange of useful experience between the various Member States.
Nothing of the sort is to be found in this report. Far from it; it is incoherent and riddled with contradictions. For example, it calls for an approach based on facts and scientific research – something that we can, of course, support – while, in the same breath, drawing conclusions most of which are incorrect. It claims that repression has no benefits, and that past action has failed to bear any fruit. Moreover, it jumps to conclusions as to what should be done.
Finally, the European Council will be determining the strategy this week, and Parliament …"@en1
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