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"Mr President, I wish to thank, on behalf of my colleague Cecilia Malmström, whom I am representing here this evening, the rapporteur and the other Members of this House for their help in drafting this report. The report undoubtedly makes a valuable contribution to the debate on counter-terrorism policy.
Following on from the Commission’s summary communication of July 2010, we now have reports providing for a very ambitious programme to increase the level of knowledge of the counter-terrorism efforts being made in Europe. The Commission supports the measures aimed at improving evaluations and hence policy-making. There is no doubt that imposing heavy economic burdens or unnecessarily restricting fundamental rights and civil liberties would only benefit those whom we are trying to counter.
Only measured policies can be legitimate, credible and properly understood. They should be supervised, evaluated and applied constantly. However, a simple economic approach, based on a cost-benefit analysis, is not sufficient to appreciate the complex nature of security issues, which are a main concern of our citizens and a key factor in the welfare of our societies. Furthermore, a number of the proposed measures could prove unenforceable, since the scope of some of them has not been clearly defined. It therefore seems unrealistic, in the short term, to envisage an in-depth and detailed 10-year evaluation of counter-terrorism policy in the European Union, not least because of the multitude of actual counter-terrorism policies and measures, or policies and measures relating to it. What is more, the Commission does not have sufficient resources to accomplish such a task at present.
Besides, by taking stock of all the counter-terrorism policies conducted by the Member States, we should be able to see things more clearly. The EU’s counter-terrorism coordinators could play an important role in this regard by contributing to this inventory and carrying out coordination work thanks to this close relationship with the Member States’ administrations."@en1
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