Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-09-25-Speech-2-222"

Predicate	Value (sorted: default)
rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2007-09-25"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Implementation of the Council decision on the moratorium against death penalty (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"pt"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20070925.30.2-222"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2007-09-25-Speech-2-2232
lpv:speaker	lp:Maria da Assunção Esteves2
lpv:spokenAs	member; AFCO (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 substitute; LIBE (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Coligaçao Força Portugal (PPD/PSD.CDS-PP) (2004-07-20--2007-11-22)3 member; EPP-ED (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia (2007-03-15--2009-07-13)3 member; DROI (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"I would remind you of what Victor Hugo said about blood being washed away with tears, not with blood. When Europe set its values and made abolition of the death penalty one of the conditions for arriving and being here, it laid down a code of principles which mark it out as the home of enlightenment and as the area where no law exists without the moral basis of sublime human dignity. The fight against the death penalty is the fight of civilisation against barbarity. The fight against official, organised, calculated and cold-blooded death. Death by rule, not by the rule of law, because the death penalty falls outside the limits of any law worthy of the name. Death by means of a brutal and illegal rule. The fight against the death penalty is a question of universal justice because it touches on the essence of mankind’s humanity and determines our relations with the world. This is why Europe cannot overlook the fact that countries such as China, Iran, Pakistan, Iraq, Sudan and the United States tragically share that barbarous mechanism of the death penalty. Europe does not have the right to complicit silence about all this. Neither can it remain silent as regards its own internal dynamics. Europe must remind Poland that the fight against the death penalty is laid down in the principles of justice which are the of being European. As regards the European Day against the Death Penalty, it would be appropriate to ask, and I am asking the Portuguese Presidency, under what circumstances is a country entitled to decide against the consensus values in Article 6 of the Treaty on European Union? I would also ask the Portuguese Presidency whether unanimity could be used for areas of consensus concerning the rules on which the Union is founded. Is unanimity intended only for issues which divide us rather than for the fundamental consensus on which Europe is based? Those are my questions for the Presidency and my thoughts about the European Day against the Death Penalty."@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"a priori"1 "sine qua non"1

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