Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-12-14-Speech-2-327"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2004-12-14"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:EU drugs strategy (2005-2012)2
dcterms:Language	"sv"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20041214.17.2-327"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2004-12-14-Speech-2-3282
lpv:speaker	lp:Charlotte Cederschiöld2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Moderata Samlingspartiet (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; LIBE (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 substitute; IMCO (2004-07-22--2006-01-18)3 member; EPP-ED (2004-07-20--2007-07-22)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the United States (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 member; Delegation for relations with Mercosur (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, there are two genuinely opposing views in this case: one in which drugs have been accepted as a natural part of our everyday life and another in which there is a desire to do everything to stop the sale and consumption of all drugs. Most Swedes, especially parents, are in favour of the latter approach. It means that prevention and the fight against drugs under criminal law have the highest priority. To maintain, like Mr Catania, that current drugs policy could be a crime against human rights is quite alien to us. We do not see the taking of illegal drugs as a human right. Penalties that enable drug addicts to choose care instead of prison are not a crime against human rights. They are a way of helping people escape drug dependency. The European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction in Lisbon also points this out at the end of the introductory summary in its report, which I think Mr Catania should read. We do not wish to decriminalise drug abuse. Instead, we wish to give clear and unambiguous signals that reject drugs. Proposals to have doctors offer people help in taking drugs or, even worse, proposals to distribute heroin are just as alien to us. What is central as far as we are concerned is that the rehabilitation of drug addicts and the content of the care given to them should be, and remain, a national competence. The Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats, in common with we Swedish Moderates, will vote against Mr Catania’s report precisely because we take a stand in the fight against this epidemic. Our approach is directed towards releasing people from drug dependency, not seeing them hooked on drugs."@en1

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