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"Thank you, Mr President. Seven months ago, I expressed the hope that the final report of the Temporary Committee would strike a better balance than the version that was current at the time. I must say today that this is unfortunately not the case.
This report, which sends out an important message to the European people and to our partners, mixes fact with speculation, deals selectively with results of the investigation, assesses individual countries on the basis of whether or not they have cooperated with the committee rather than what they have actually done, and makes a whole range of accusations with scarcely any evidence. Naturally, with the committee’s limited powers it was not possible to substantiate a number of the claims.
Sadder still is the fact that we have relinquished the one ambition that had a chance of succeeding under these circumstances, namely a proposed framework for effectively combating terrorism without hindering human rights, and for ensuring, via workable proposals, that the mistakes of the past would not be repeated.
Mr President, guaranteeing the citizens’ security is the basic duty of any government. With the army and secret services facing exceptional circumstances, mistakes do occasionally occur. We now know that this has happened since 11 September. It is extremely important that these excesses are condemned. I feel it was a big mistake of the committee to try deliberately to create the impression that such excesses were endemic, rather than being isolated cases, in spite of the fact that there is not a single shred of evidence to support that view.
Some MEPs have been making unfounded accusations that this is a political report, not a legal document. I should like, if I may, to remind the Chamber of our duty – both to our electorates and to this institution – to provide information in a balanced, objective manner.
Ladies and gentlemen, I am firmly of the view that to adopt the report before us would be to undermine trust in the European Parliament. Thank you."@en1
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