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"Mr President, I would like to express my profound gratitude for Mr Tabajdi’s work in preparing and tabling this oral question that we are debating here today, and also for his tremendous work in drawing up the resolution which, regrettably, we are not debating but which we will no doubt be able to discuss in forthcoming plenary sittings.
This resolution is necessary because it is clear that we have to find a minimum level of protection for minority groups in the European Union, something that does not exist at the moment.
I do not share Commissioner Barrot’s perception, in often hiding behind the European Union’s lack of jurisdiction on this matter. It is a patent contradiction to mention the Copenhagen criteria, to mention another type of legislation and, at the same time, – when, perhaps, it is not of interest or when, perhaps, one is not brave enough – to hide behind the lack of jurisdiction in order not to, shall we say, make progress in the protection of minority groups, because we are, ultimately, facing an eternal dilemma. We are not facing a problem but, rather, a challenge that the European Union has to meet, and this issue should be seen as such."@en1
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