These concerns were taken as a very important political message by my group, especially now that we are trying to define our authority at European and national level and persuade the people of the European Union and the candidate countries that we respect democracy, subsidiarity and cultural differences, and we took on board the message that asking the Member States to legalise abortion or not to prosecute women who illegally terminate their pregnancy or to hand out the morning-after pill without a doctor's prescription does absolutely nothing for our credentials.
Cette inquiétude a été interprétée comme un message particulièrement important par mon groupe, alors que nous nous efforçons de délimiter nos compétences entre les niveaux européen et national, et de convaincre les peuples de l’Union européenne et des pays candidats que nous agissons dans le respect de la démocratie, de la subsidiarité et des particularités culturelles.
