Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-09-12-Speech-3-226-500"
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"The Greek Communist Party MEPs abstained on the report and the Commission proposal, because they promote the harmonisation and homogenisation of basic provisions of national criminal law at EU level, thereby restricting the sovereign rights of the Member States. This forms part of the EU strategy on a ‘single area of freedom, security and justice’, the aim of which is to effectively protect the exploitative system, by beefing up repressive mechanisms and restricting grassroots freedoms and democratic rights. Criminal prosecution and the terms on which penal justice is dispensed come within the sovereign competence of each Member States and, under a series of euro-unifying acts, are gradually and methodically being ceded to the euro-unifying institutions. For that reason, issues are being selected that touch a sore spot with the workers, such as child protection and protection of victims of crime, in order to establish the apparent need for common Union criminal law in the minds of the people. Furthermore, the provisions of the directive that allow victims to testify without being physically present in court are dangerous. Provisions such as this promote the ‘anti-terrorism’ legislation of the EU and its Member States, by eliminating some of the defendant’s fundamental rights of defence, such as the facility for the defence to test the reliability of the testimony in live proceedings."@en1
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