Ilka Schröder, MEP
Confederal Group of European United Left/Nordic Green Left
Ilka Schröder of the Federal Republic of Germany has served in the European Parliament since 1999. The following is excerpted from February 12, 2003, European Parliament debate on Progress in Implementing the Area of Freedom, Security, and Justice in 2002.The area of freedom, security, and justice is something that many members of this House still imagine to be a highly advanced position adopted by a European Union that offers its citizens the greatest possible degree of freedom and protection from the state.It is not only in the last year that events have proved the opposite to be the case: Repressive…