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"Even though all Member States are signatories to the Convention, the accession of the EU as a whole will represent not just a new dimension for human rights protection in the EU, but also – I would like to stress – a legal and political signal for a strengthening of relations between the EU and Europe. I would also like to support the idea that, along with the EU’s accession to the Convention on the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, serious consideration should also be given to the wide-scale adoption of legislation setting out the area of social rights – the adoption of a revised European Social Charter at a Europe-wide level for the Union as a whole, for example, would clearly be a welcome step.
The EU’s accession to the Convention also opens up the question of the political representation of the Union in the bodies of the Council of Europe. At the same time, people are saying that the European Parliament should also play an active role in this process. I agree in principle with this view, Commissioner, but I fear that the process, including its individual components, will not be at all easy. Even though I currently share your enthusiasm – and of course the Council also deserves thanks for its very good work – we must prepare ourselves for the fact that the process will be very complicated and that we still have a lot of work to do in this direction."@en1
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