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Mr President, I believe that Parliament, the Council and the Commission have this evening given important expression to what can and should be our relationship with the memory of the Holocaust. It is fair to say that remembrance can make our values stronger. As has been said, they are the values that inspired the founding fathers of our Europe and which we have a duty to preserve and strengthen.
Mr Schulz recalled – and I share the idea deeply – how the founding fathers, such as Konrad Adenauer for the people of Germany, and let me also mention Alcide De Gasperi for the Italians, represented a new beginning after the tragedy of the dictatorship. They allowed us – I say this as an Italian – to walk with our heads held high in the new Europe. That is the great debt that we owe to the founding fathers.
It has been said that remembrance is a debt that we owe to the young. Europe today has the duty to honour that debt through education, schooling and training and, in a certain way, through a commitment to remember history while looking to the future. I personally like the proposal by some Members who think it would be good to have a European Holocaust Memorial Day that we can all commemorate together at the same time.
The Commission, as Minister Schmit mentioned, is working closely with the Council to re-examine the framework decision against racism, xenophobia and anti-Semitism. In that respect I fully agree with the assessment made by the Council.
The Commission will soon be setting up a European agency to protect fundamental rights. To that end, I should like to reassure certain Members who have spoken that not only will such an agency not do away with our protection measures and safeguards against anti-Semitism and racism, but that it will in fact strengthen them. Respect for these principles and values will therefore remain central to the work done by the Agency, which the Commission will be setting up very soon with the Council’s agreement.
Mr President, it seems that the ghosts – if I can call them that – of hatred and intolerance, violence and racism, are reappearing in Europe today. I believe that this Europe of ours must play a major role precisely in eradicating such negative values, particularly among the young, and in promoting tolerance and dialogue with other cultures and religions instead, for the sake of a principle already enshrined in the European Charter of Fundamental Rights, which we have written into the European Constitution. That, I believe, is the best way to honour the victims of that tragedy."@en1
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