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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the weakness in this agreement that all my fellow Members have complained about – including those who will voting in favour – is rather understandable if you refer to the words of both Ms Malmström and the Council, who spoke quite clearly about new and important concessions included in the agreement.
That is precisely the point: we are talking about concessions, which means something quite different to the recognition of legal prerogatives. This is the real problem – more cultural than political, I would say – in current relations between the European institutions and the United States authorities. This is the problem that has allowed the US authorities to hold separate negotiations with each Member State rather than dealing with the institutions of the EU. No European foreign minister or prime minister has not been brought up to speed on this issue in recent months.
Regardless, and acknowledging the objective truth of this fact, I think we should vote in favour not only because of concerns over safety but also because of the progress made in this agreement. That is because, honestly, a united and incisive EU stance cannot be put together overnight; it is not possible to shift the responsibility for ensuring the rights of all European citizens to the EU in a single step.
That is something we are doing on a day-to-day basis and I think our fellow Member Mr López Aguilar showed this brilliantly by describing just how animated and in-depth the debate was in the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs. That is precisely why the Italian delegation of the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) will vote firmly in favour of this agreement, in the hope of better times ahead."@en1
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