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dcterms:Date	"2010-05-18"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Institutional aspects of accession by the European Union to the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms - Review Conference of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court in Kampala, Uganda (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"de"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20100518.32.2-399"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2010-05-18-Speech-2-4002
lpv:speaker	lp:Helmut Scholz2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia (2009-09-16--2012-06-12)3 member; INTA (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 substitute; AFET (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 member; EUL/NGL (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation for relations with the United States (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 substitute; AFCO (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 unknown; DIE LINKE. (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, my group very much welcomes the accession of the European Union to the European Convention on Human Rights. It is, no doubt, Europe’s most important human rights instrument and the importance of the Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights – maybe even for Mr Fox – is clear from the fact that it handles an average of 30 000 complaints a year. In 2009, incidentally, there were 57 000, and the Court issued 2 000 judgments that year or, more accurately, it had to pronounce these judgments. In the shape of the Court of Justice, the European Union, too, has a court, but, unlike the European Court of Human Rights, the Court of Justice is not solely responsible for protecting fundamental rights, and it is also not completely wrong to establish at this point that the Court of Justice did not, in the past, occupy the sole leading role in evolving European fundamental rights. Both the Council of Europe and the EU are calling the forthcoming accession historic, and I think we in the plenary will give a majority backing to this in our vote. I, hope, first and foremost, that it will indeed prove itself to be historic for Europe’s citizens, as it will create an area of applicable human rights to which not only 47 governments, but also the institutions of the European Union, are bound. In that way, the EU will be sending a strong signal to the citizens of Europe that it is not above the law when it comes to human rights and that they, the citizens, can bring an action if the Community institutions should infringe their human rights. The specific form of the accession process itself will certainly create some problems, and it is therefore important that we find the best solutions for the extremely difficult technical and legal problems quickly and constructively and with open-mindedness and creativity."@en1
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