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Mr President, today’s debate is also an acid test for the Charter of Fundamental Rights. I believe that it will become clear whether the Commission is serious about the values laid down in the Charter of Fundamental Rights, such as human dignity, or whether it turns a blind eye to violations. Does the Commission sit back and hide behind the Member States, or does it actually expose the contradictions? How is it that the Commission is unable to explain to us today why, on the one hand, the British Government is maintaining that this trade did not take place, that no payments were made beyond mere compensation, and why, on the other hand, the Romanian Government has shut this clinic down? You have not given us any explanation for this today.
Are we to understand from this that you do not take this point seriously, that you have let yourself be lulled into complacency by these soothing assurances, or are you prepared to really look into these items of evidence? They are innumerable – derived from the Internet, from journalists, from other documentation – and make clear that payments were made. Mr Kyprianou, common sense should make you ask yourself what reason there could be for these Romanian women to supply egg cells to British clinics, of all places, free of charge: something that after all entails a serious health risk to themselves.
What I should like is for the Commission to take this debate more seriously, for it not to hide behind assurances or behind the resolution. We are familiar with the draft Directives. As guardian of the Treaties, it is your duty to ensure that there are no ethical cluster bombs of this nature lying around in the European Union. You have to ensure that they are shown the red card. I do not just mean by Parliament, as we plan to do with our resolution; it is also your duty, as the European Commission, to send out a crystal-clear signal that trade of this nature is prohibited, and that the Commission will do everything – absolutely everything – to put an end to this violation of human dignity. The Commission must also give a real demonstration that it is serious about this, that it is carrying out its own investigations and perhaps even engaging its common sense and contacting the Government of Romania: which is after all a candidate country. It must also make clear to the European public that trafficking in human beings and trading in human body parts are prohibited in the European Union."@en1
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