Claude Moraes (S&D). - Mr President, as the final speaker listed, and having listened to the contributions, I want to say two things. Firstly, we need to learn the lessons of what has happened with regard to the anti-terrorism part of what will be discussed at the informal Council; and secondly we must stay united.

Why should we be united on the anti-terrorism fight? First of all, as many people have said, while we are dealing with the Passenger Name Record (PNR) scheme, there is almost a disproportionate concentration on it. Parliament has moved swiftly on this, so we have shown our commitment today, and within a few minutes we will vote on PNR. Yes, it is controversial because the last terrorist outrage, before what we saw on the streets of Paris, was in 2005 in London, and we have since produced the Data Retention Directive, and we have to learn the lessons of what happened.

We need legislation which is worthy of our citizens and worthy of this House, and which will stand the tests of time and the European Court of Justice. We have to learn the lessons. So Parliament will move swiftly, but that means that we must be united, and that the Council must do its job. It means that Europol and the Europol Regulation must happen. It means that the data regulation package, which underpins so much of what will happen with PNR, must also happen. You do your job, Council, and the Commission – so eloquently represented by Mr Timmermans – will be there to help us through this, through the informal Council and through our job.

That means being unified because, at the end of the day, terrorism is an attack on our security and an attack on life, but if we are united we will have helped our citizens through a profoundly challenging moment in our history. We cannot do that if we do not see the institutions working together.

What will that mean in terms of learning other lessons? It means that the causes of radicalisation, and all the other tools in our toolbox aside from PNR, must be our business, as we learn the lessons and cooperate. If our citizens see this, they will see first that we have learned the lessons and then that we can remain united. We will still have differences – this is not a perfect resolution that we will be voting on in a few minutes’ time – but we will have done a service to our citizens in the end.