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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I took part in the committee of enquiry as a Non-attached Member – except at the final vote when I represented the ITS Group – with the aim of trying to understand how much truth there was behind the accusations of collusion and complicity with human rights violations that had been levelled against the Member States.
Let me say at the outset that, contrary to many committee members as well as the rapporteur and the Italian party that he represents, my party, the
and I myself believe that Europe ought to be playing a different geopolitical role and, again contrary to what Mr Fava represents, I believe that the Atlantic Alliance is an outdated instrument, because it gives Europe a subordinate role. I would therefore have ideological reasons for criticising the activities – any kind of activities in general – carried out by the CIA or any other organisation operating on behalf of the United States and NATO inside the EU.
Nevertheless, I believe I am also being balanced and objective in decisively rejecting the conclusions of the Fava report, because not only is it flawed by its fundamental hypocrisy, in that it calls into question the operations of a State that is recognised and accepted as an ally, but it is tendentious and adds nothing new beyond what has already appeared in a number of newspapers. Of course, any violation of human rights is abhorrent and intolerable and must be rejected, but to insist on a presumption of innocence in secret service operations is laughable and could even be dangerous if its purpose is to protect the people and the State. The need for such protection is another reason why we cannot vote for the Fava report, unless many of the tabled amendments are accepted, particularly those by Mr Pirilli and Mr Gawronski."@en1
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