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"Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, tomorrow, our Parliament will vote on the ratification of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). It is because this treaty is a threat to public and digital liberties and to fundamental rights (freedom of expression, protection of personal data and private life), but also because it will lead to unacceptable restrictions in terms of information sharing in the fields of culture, agriculture, health and innovation to the benefit of certain groups, that we must reject ACTA.
After three years of political and technical sparring, will our Parliament, the one and only direct representative of the European citizens, live up to the expectations and the trust of the thousands of citizens who have protested on the streets of Europe and inundated us with e-mails, the three million Europeans who have appealed to our Committee on Petitions, the citizens who elected us? Yes, by voting against ACTA and in favour of freedoms.
Tomorrow, it is the citizens’ lobby which must win in order to say ‘Bye bye ACTA, welcome democracy!’. Welcome European democracy and citizens’ democracy. Welcome to the 21st century and the digital age. Our choice, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, is political, and it is a rejection of the world proposed to us by ACTA."@en1
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