Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-10-12-Speech-4-032"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2006-10-12"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights – Fundamental Rights Agency: activities under Title VI of the EU Treaty (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"fi"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20061012.3.4-032"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2006-10-12-Speech-4-0332
lpv:speaker	lp:Anneli Jäätteenmäki2
lpv:spokenAs	member; FEMM (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; Delegation for relations with the United States (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 substitute; SEDE (2004-07-22--2007-01-14)3 unknown; Suomen Keskusta (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; AFET (2004-07-30--2007-01-14)3 member; IMCO (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; ALDE (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-13--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the Council of Europe is Europe’s most important human rights agency, and will remain so even after this agency has been established. The Council of Europe has wide-ranging supervisory and monitoring rights. The agency under discussion will be completely different. The task of the agency will not be to monitor Member States but to provide them and the Union’s institutions with information and expertise. The agency will be a service facility with the job of assisting us. The work of the agency would never focus on any particular country, and it would not investigate any individual outstanding events or breaches, as is the case with the Council of Europe. It is nevertheless important that this kind of independent agency for fundamental human rights, the Human Rights Agency, should be set up in the EU. It is also important that it works closely with the Council of Europe. In addition, I would like to stress that, now that we are seeing an increase in the powers of the police and are contemplating and tightening up counter-terrorist measures, it is important that at the same time we also take a look at how fundamental rights and human rights function. Furthermore, the work of this agency should, I believe, be extended to the third pillar, so that it might apply to police cooperation and cooperation on crime. In order to make progress, however, this cooperation, police cooperation and cooperation on crime, could, I think, be implemented in a more restricted form than in the Commission’s proposal, for it to get through. Moreover, in the long term, the EU must also make up for its shortcomings in the sense that it does not intervene when Member States are in breach of human rights. We have no mechanisms for that. We know that human rights do not currently function in the best possible way inside the EU, and we should also be addressing those problems and not just looking at what is happening outside the EU. Of course, it is important to monitor and intervene in human rights violations wherever they take place, but the EU and its Member States should obviously ensure that the human rights of their own citizens and those living here are respected."@en1

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