Claude Moraes (S&D). - Mr President, the shadow for our group, Ms Flašíková[nbsp ]Beňová, has already spoken for our group and supported the rapporteur, Louis Michel. As an S&D speaker, I would also like to support this report.

This is now my third term in this Parliament, and I think I understand that the Fundamental Rights report does a number of things. Firstly, it does the impossible, which is to call the European Union a community of values. This in itself is a very broad thing to have to do. When it does it, it does two things: it tries to keep up to date with what that means and, secondly, it then makes the rapporteur fall into controversies.

I think we have to settle on a report which commands enough support across this Parliament. We take the view that Louis Michel has produced a challenging report, but a good report. I would like to give some snapshots of where we think he has done that. He has challenged us; but do we want to produce a report which is merely cosmetic, which does not make us think and which does not really tell our citizens what fundamental rights are? Let me give you three quick examples. We would never have talked about the balance between security, fighting terrorism and mass surveillance in the past, yet this is now something that many of us across the political spectrum can debate and sometimes agree on. We do not want our citizens to suffer mass surveillance of their data; we want them to be protected against terrorism. We need to find the balance. Louis Michel has touched on this issue in his report.

He has touched on a completely different issue: the fight against anti-Semitism. How many of us would disagree with this in the European Union of today?

It is of course a question of balance and of how we do it, but I would go further and say that anti-discrimination is something that we should extend to other areas. There will, of course, be disagreements on exactly how we do it, but I think again he is challenging us and that we are getting the balance right. Is it right to leave migration, the most sensitive of topics, out of such a report? I do not think so.

So these are just three snapshots that I have seen in this report which I believe should be there. Overall he has done a good job, challenged us and come to the conclusion that we are a community of values. That is what we should be. I think we should support this report for that reason.