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"Madam President, Ms Malmström, I am pleased by the unanimity which prevails in the Chamber on the need to fight sex crimes committed against children. We can say today that the route to the formal adoption of this instrument at first reading stands wide open before us. I am also sure that the compromise which has been agreed, thanks in great measure to the efforts of the rapporteur, will allow the rapid adoption of this directive.
I have listened with interest to all of the speakers here in this debate. Each one showed enormous interest in the needs of children, who are a very special kind of victim. The situation demands that we react as new developments arise. We must respond to threats as they appear, particularly because very many of them are related to the development of modern technology such as the Internet. Therefore, with this directive we are bringing in measures which make a radical contribution to strengthening the protection of persons under the age of 18 years by creating new offences, which include a number of crimes associated with the use of modern technologies. As the European Union we do not want to lag behind international organisations and we must not allow this to happen. May this resolution be a very plain, clear and unequivocal signal to the European Union’s citizens that we are treating the work of protecting children as very important and as a priority. In this case it is a signal which is all the more important because it is on us – on adults – that there rests here a particular responsibility to remember the children – those who themselves are not able to protect their own interests.
I would like once again to thank very sincerely everyone who has been involved in this work, and in closing to express the conviction and the hope that the instrument – the proposal for a directive which we have discussed today – will not become a paper tiger or just a law on paper, but will be a real instrument for improving the legal protection of children and for prosecuting crimes perpetrated against them."@en1
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