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"Mr President, there is no more difficult subject than whistle-blowing, given its interpretations. The options are: is it revelation or is it revenge?
The more secretive or controlling and authoritarian a state is, the more contentious and confrontational whistle-blowing becomes. Now, it is difficult enough in the United Kingdom where we have a cultural attitude and a legal structure to facilitate genuine whistle-blowing; but for many other countries and Member States, whistle-blowing is just too confrontational to the state mechanisms.
I do not believe that the Commission has any role in this remit, and I have heard this evening comments about installing minimum standards. Well there is absolutely no guarantee that those minimum standards would be adopted. We have got proof of that in other areas.
I would remind people in the Chamber this evening – the few that there might be – that citizens of former Communist countries still remember that night-time knock on the door, and that was the result of whistle-blowing. So this is a subject where platitudinous generalisations and approaches are an insult to individuals demonstrating great personal courage and risk in the face of real issues. I do not think the EU has a role in this area."@en1
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