Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-10-10-Speech-3-036"
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"Mr President, I note with great regret that citizens’ rights are clearly not at the heart of the new Treaty. Unfortunately, the Charter of Fundamental Rights has been sacrificed to the Dutch Government’s fear of a referendum. The Charter of Fundamental Rights must be legally binding in full and for all because the Charter of Fundamental Rights is the application in practice of our shared values.
So, what does an opt-out mean? Is it an opt-out from those shared values? Or, does it mean that Poland and the British Government simply pay lip-service to those values but then deny their citizens the means to enforce their rights? What does an opt-out mean? Are we not creating a dangerous precedent here? Let us ask ourselves, will future countries, future Member States, have the same right to an opt-out? If Turkey, a country that I very much want to join the European Union, asks for an opt-out from the Charter of Fundamental Rights, will it be granted the same right?
The other issue is that, between the Constitution and the Treaty, an additional, lower standard of data protection has somehow been created – a lower standard that applies to the area of the common foreign and security policy. I predict that in the future the Member States will try to circumvent data protection rules by labelling, for example, counter-terrorism measures as common foreign and security policy instead of police and justice cooperation.
Finally, I would ask the Commission and the Member States to consider, as soon as the Treaty has been signed, acting in the spirit of the new Treaty and involving the European Parliament as a full co-legislator on matters of justice and home affairs, and rapidly closing the democratic gap that we have been living with for so long."@en1
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