Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-12-11-Speech-2-258"
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"Mr President, a human rights policy that is not consistent is hypocritical and lacks credibility. The European Union is right to want to support human rights in third countries, but to be credible, we must also respect all fundamental democratic rights among ourselves.
We do not always do that, especially in the case of the right to freedom of expression. That right is one of the most basic rights, if not
most basic right, but it is increasingly being seen as a problem. In particular, criticism of the failed immigration and integration policy is always labelled as racism and so is criminalised.
The report we are discussing now also makes this mistake. People risk being prosecuted and convicted, not because of something they have done, but because of their opinions and the expression of those opinions. In this way the policy being pursued does not produce solutions to the problems, but the policy itself becomes part of the problem."@en1
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