European Parliament
Sarah Ludford (ALDE ). –
I am very grateful for that positive news, which is most welcome. But I am sorry that the Minister feels that there are no proposals on homophobic hate crime. Does she not think that the EU really ought to be tackling the challenges of both racism and homophobia in their acute form of violence and hatred across Europe? We are becoming years out of date with the challenges that we are meeting, not least because of the third-pillar problems of the veto in the Council to which she had referred. Will you also make progress as regards the
passerelle
in bringing the third pillar – the intergovernmental part – into Community competence so that we can be more effective and democratic?

