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"Mr President, I staunchly advocate the need for a society built upon tolerance and equality, yet what we have here in the form of the Fundamental Rights Agency is a wasteful, unnecessary and fraudulent operation which undermines the very objectives it purports to represent.
In 2004, a study carried out by the agency’s predecessor on anti-Semitism in Europe seriously massaged statistics to suggest that white nationalists, rather than Muslim youths, were the main perpetrators of anti-Jewish racist incidents, a ploy that the President of the European Jewish Congress, Cobi Benatoff, attacked as intellectual dishonesty and moral treachery. A recent study on homophobia, costing EUR 370 000, did not even have a mechanism to verify responses and, as such, could not deliver any conclusive report on attitudes and trends in Europe.
The Agency costs GBP 20 million a year, an utterly ridiculous amount of money when in the UK we have our well-functioning Equality and Human Rights Commission. Even Amnesty International has been a critic of the Fundamental Rights Agency, which largely duplicates the work of extant organisations and, where it does carry out independent research, has demonstrated that the research is subject to such manipulation it is actually of detriment to honest efforts to protect fundamental rights."@en1
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