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"I voted against this resolution because it makes cooperation and the relationship between the European Union and the United States the be-all and end-all of international relations.
This resolution vacillates between good intentions and pious hopes; it is out of step or at odds with the declarations made by the EU and the United States and, above all, with the much publicised principles and values that are forever being contradicted in practice.
This resolution truly surpasses itself with regard to the EU’s and the US’ responses to the financial crisis, by welcoming the recent G20, and likewise with regard to data protection and the Passenger Name Record (PNR) Agreement, which rides roughshod over European legislation and principles in this area. No mention is made of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), nor of the Durban Conference on climate change.
If transatlantic relations are to be credible, they must be built on new political foundations and, above all, must reject a bilateral approach that sees the West governing the world, imposing its choices and being incapable of applying on its own soil the values of human rights and freedoms that it wants to impose on the world, including through the use of military force."@en1
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