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Is a new EU human rights special representative really justified?
The recent creation of a new EU Special Representative on Human Rights may be unnecessary duplication of work already being done by the Council of Europe, warned Anne Brasseur (Luxembourg, ALDE), opening a current affairs debate today on European institutions and human rights in Europe.
The official announcement of the new post made no reference to the Council of Europe, she pointed out, in apparent contradiction with a 2007 memo agreed with the EU which said the Council of Europe should remain "the reference" for human rights standards. "At a time of severe budgetary restraint, is such a new post really justified?" she asked.
