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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I should like to thank the rapporteur and all those who have spoken. I think the most important political point is the added value of European action. I cannot even imagine Parliament taking a different line from that of the Commission and the Council when debating the fight against organised crime. Added value therefore comes from the joint efforts of the three institutions of the European Union – the Commission, Parliament and the Council. It is quite clear that the more united these efforts are, the greater the political force that our actions will have and the more they will be a tangible demonstration to large criminal organisations that Europe really is united around this objective.
As has rightly been said, ‘Parliament’s voice must be heard’, and I intend to listen to it fully. An essential point, which Mr Coelho mentioned, is certainly mutual trust among the Member States’ security and police authorities. If there is no mutual trust and if the necessary information is not made available to Europol and Eurojust, the European strategy is materially weakened. That is why some of you – Mr Stubb was the last – did well to mention the need for the Home Affairs Ministers to make substantial progress with their cooperation policies so as to strengthen this mutual trust. I am fully in favour of strengthening Europol and Eurojust and I shall personally encourage the Member States that have not yet done so to ratify all the Europol protocols.
I fully agree with the idea that assets seized from criminal organisations should be put to good use and utilised for social purposes. Mr Catania mentioned that under Italian law – and under Irish law, too – assets that organised crime used for evil purposes should be used to do good. That is an example that I believe could be exported to the other European Union Member States.
Lastly, an appeal to make joint investigation teams work even better. They are a highly positive experiment that has produced good results so far. I believe that if this experiment is strengthened and if Eurojust is strengthened – as I hope it will be – we can respond to our citizens’ needs with some tangible, unified action from the European Union’s institutions."@en1
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