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"Madam President, human rights or no human rights, will the Special Representative still get the 12 weeks’ paid holiday a year which is standard in the shambles that is the External Action Service?
We know that what the EU calls human rights has the consequence that we in the UK cannot protect ourselves from Abu Qatada and his kind. Abu Qatada’s so-called human rights are sacrosanct. In the meantime, you could not care less when it comes to the victims of the European Arrest Warrant. I would cite the case of Andrew Symeou, who, at 18, was held in Greece by means of the European Arrest Warrant for almost three years, 11 months of which were in the notorious Korydallos prison. After the three years, he was let go. It had been a case of mistaken identity all along.
The European Arrest Warrant has caused the surrender of over 700 UK citizens or residents to harsh and alien legal systems in continental Europe. We are all at risk. I would suggest, calmly and politely – although this is a subject that makes me angry – that on human rights, you get your own house in order before posturing elsewhere. As I was about to say before I was inappropriately interrupted, in March 2010, the High Representative, like the Bourbons, has forgotten nothing and has learned nothing."@en1
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