Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2010-05-05-Speech-3-489"

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dcterms:Date	"2010-05-05"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Accession agreement of the European Union to the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"sv"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20100505.75.3-489"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2010-05-05-Speech-3-4902
lpv:speaker	lp:Cecilia Wikström2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; LIBE (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees, and for relations with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia (2009-09-16--2012-12-09)3 member; JURI (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 substitute; EMPL (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 substitute; Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Folkpartiet liberalerna (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; ALDE (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, the EU’s accession to the European Convention has been on the agenda for a long time. Now there is a legal basis for the accession becoming a reality. We can all be pleased about that. The EU’s accession to the European Convention will mean that the protection of fundamental rights will be supplemented and strengthened, that citizens in our Member States will have better protection in relation to the EU’s activities and that legal practice in the area of human rights will be harmonised better in the two European courts, in The Hague and Strasbourg. With its accession to the European Convention, the EU’s institutions will be subject to the administration of justice by the European Court of Human Rights. This will guarantee the independent external monitoring of the EU’s respect for people’s fundamental rights and freedoms. It is a very important step. It is very easy to be lulled into the belief that we in Europe are free of the sort of violations of human rights that are committed in other parts of the world. As Member States of the European Union we have laws, statutes and deeply rooted European values that safeguard our rights. Based on the text at the beginning of the Treaty of Lisbon, freedom of expression, freedom of the press and freedom of religion are European freedoms that are to be respected everywhere in the Union without exception. Unfortunately, this is not always the case, as there are Member States that violate fundamental rights in the EU. Regrettably, it is also the case that we in this House stand by and allow this to happen. With the EU’s accession to the European Convention with a view to strengthening and supplementing citizens’ freedoms and rights it will be important that we in Parliament legislate and act in accordance with the Convention. The fact is that there remains a great deal to be done in our Member States to sweep our own backyard and make the fine words that constitute our common values a reality."@en1
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