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"Some people might expect to see a good fight here today in this Chamber. It will not happen. It will not happen because the President has presented us with a document and with his comments that indicate a step ahead from the Strasbourg Document: we use the same words and hope that behind words of the same tenor, there is hope for similar and joint political action as well. I rest assured that his cooperation with the Vice-Presidents presages a promising future and I do not want to start a debate on who likes red in neck-ties and who prefers red in ears. Let us conclude that solidarity and social cohesion are values and they have human content rather than colour.
I would like to talk about the issues of security and justice. I was pleased to find that security and justice were mentioned among the fundamental principles, and not simply treated as regulatory technicalities. We all know that security cannot be taken for granted and that it means more than providing a peaceful life to citizens in the face of life-threatening perils. European security policy does not end with combating the threat of terrorism and finding effective ways to prevent and tackle bombings. We believe, and I would like to emphasise this notion: democracy is the real pledge of security. Only democracy protects people, and personal rights are guaranteed by democracy in the law-making process. It is democracy that prevents the introduction, in the name of security, of restrictions that conflict with the philosophy of our Constitutional Treaty.
We do not want to live in a world – we have already done so – where our dreams are written in dossiers. And neither do we want to live in a world where people are discriminated against on the basis of gender, age, religion, or financial or family status. We do not want discrimination, as it exposes the weak to tangible dangers and it is the weak who become more and more exposed: women, the elderly and children. We do not want discrimination of ‘otherness’ and this is why we keep asking you whether we can take seriously the promise of your personal commitment to anti-discriminatory legislature and to taking definite legal steps to combat discrimination.
There are dangers that reach far beyond security policy among the perils that threaten the quality of human life. While entrenched and irreversible poverty creates fault lines that divide continents, countries and regions within countries, solidarity and social cohesion not only strengthen competitiveness, but security as well. They prevent mass migration of the poor, and may prevent anti-poverty riots. Hence, we can say that although nature may turn against man, our joint policy may prevent man from turning against man. I hope we will be able to cooperate no matter which side of the horseshoe we sit on in Parliament."@en1
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