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Mr President, Mr President-in-Office, Vice-President Frattini, ladies and gentlemen, the fact that the general public cannot raise much enthusiasm for the European project often casts a shadow over our debates on the future of Europe. What we are initiating now in connection with the Prüm Convention is a major contribution to the bid for a little more support from the people of Europe for this European project. That has something to do with the fact that, by virtue of this Council offensive and the cooperation between ourselves and the Commission, we have managed to take an important issue, namely the public threat emanating from terrorism and organised crime, and go beyond mere speech-making to achieve tangible improvements. We have discussed this on various occasions here in Parliament and in the competent committee and have established that there is an urgent need to act on the question of cross-border police cooperation. Time and again we have expressed regret at not making more rapid progress or indeed any progress at all.
We know that, in the domains of DNA-matching and fingerprint-matching, exchanging information could increase people’s security. I am therefore extremely pleased that a degree of success has been achieved with the proposal to bring parts of the Prüm Convention into a European legislative framework.
Let me also say in all honesty that I would have hoped for more. In our preceding debates, we had already gone further. May I also say that, at some points, our group would not have gone so far on the detailed weighting of the data-protection structure, because we believe that these additional decisions would not have been necessary, given that the matters in question are already covered by the Prüm Convention. On assessing the instrument as a whole, however – and the rapporteur has already made this point – we ultimately decided to support the project in its entirety, despite our remaining reservations on one or two provisions.
It is important that this project should have an impact and that we should register a success in this sphere. It will serve to enhance the public image of Europe."@en1
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