Tässä äänestysselityksessä ilmaisemamme kanta kuvastaa periaatteessa suhtautumistamme tähän kysymykseen. ###>The European Union has no competence in these areas and cannot judge the constitutions and national laws of its Member States which, having all signed the European Convention on Human Rights, are accountable in the matter of such rights to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.