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"en.20120418.18.3-305-000"2
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"This report is overdue. I would like to draw your attention to two important issues mentioned in this report. Firstly, the report recalls that the founding Treaties commit the EU to having its external actions guided by the principles of democracy and the rule of law. Secondly, the report states that for the EU to be a credible actor in external relations, its policies must be consistent and exemplary within the Union itself. It must act consistently in accordance with the Treaty and avoid double standards between its human rights policy and other external policies. The EU is failing in both areas. The European Parliament does not have a moral right to lecture others when it has even worse human rights violations and even crimes perpetrated in its own Union, when people are handcuffed, thrown into a cell, held under house arrest during elections, prevented from meeting voters, and when illegal searches are carried out, funds seized, parties’ activities blocked and people are slandered on state television. The worst thing is that the European Parliament is failing to draw attention to, and is even concealing, crimes perpetrated by European Union Member States against opponents. Cases are being falsified and the opposition is being drawn into trials; year after year, people are being hauled before the courts. A mechanism has been created that only allows you to prove your case after 10-15 years when your political career is already over. This is a sham of democracy."@en1
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