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"The Howitt report contains a fresh approach to the manner in which Europe views its fight for a global human rights culture, an approach that abandons the purely descriptive method and challenges the European institutions as regards the effectiveness of their actions. Greater institutional integration for the Union, political, not just technical, relations with the Council of Europe and a binding charter of rights: this is the basis of a European front that takes rights seriously.
Parliament is today calling for all European political institutions to play their part in this master plan of spreading the sacred principles of humanity and the rule of law around the world. Europe cannot be an end in itself. The enlightened ideal at its core implies that it must take its crusade of rights around the world, and that it must have the courage to resist the temptation of
because the politics of interested parties leads to uneven demands on the Member States in the area of rights.
I wish to stress the importance of concerted action on the part of the Union and all Member States on human rights, because on this issue there remain a great many contradictions that diminish the moral authority of the Union's political system in negotiations and weaken the impact of European policy.
The Union presidencies have a great responsibility to ensure that the human rights policies of the Union and its Member States are consistent across the board. A strong, concerted European rights policy would address the litany of horrors that, unfortunately, is not exclusive to underdeveloped countries. The death penalty, and even the exploitation of work that leads to company relocations, to give two very different examples, can only be combated with a tough concerted rights policy. Furthermore, an increasingly ambitious Europe in terms of military presence can only be an increasingly ambitious Europe if it has a culture of rights, a political Europe that has people at its core, because that is the nature of Europe."@en1
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