<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament:"My attention has been drawn to the draft European Charter of Fundamental Rights. Article 17 is headed """"""""Freedom of Assembly and Association"""""""", and speaks of """"""""the right to peaceful assembly, including the right to form and to join trade unions or political parties"""""""".  My Party supports all of that Article, believing that in any society there must be the strongest possible guarantees of the right to peaceful assembly, the right to form and join trade unions, and the right to form political parties.  Yet the European Parliament recently approved proposals to be discussed at the Inter-governmental Conference later this year, to take powers to ban political parties, like Jörg Haider's Freedom Party in Austria. Please inform me how the European Union can consider banning any political party when to do so would be a fundamental breach of the proposed Article 17 of the proposed European Charter?  Will the Council of Ministers now drop any proposals to ban political parties in the European Union?"
Analyze carefully the text and assign it to the most relevant policy area among those listed below. Do not explain your answer and return only a number.
Policy area numbers: 1 = Macroeconomics
2 = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties
3 = Health
4 = Agriculture and Fisheries
5 = Labour, employment and pensions
6 = Education
7 = Environment
8 = Energy
9 = Immigration
10 = Transportation
12 = Law and Crime
13 = Social welfare
14 = Regional and Urban issues and Planning
15 = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues
16 = Defence
17 = Space, science, technology, and communications issues
18 = Foreign trade
19 = International affairs and foreign aid
20 = Governance and government
21 = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues
23 = Culture and media
[/INST]. Answer = [2]. </s>
My attention has been drawn to the draft European Charter of Fundamental Rights. Article 17 is headed """"""""Freedom of Assembly and Association"""""""", and speaks of """"""""the right to peaceful assembly, including the right to form and to join trade unions or political parties"""""""".  My Party supports all of that Article, believing that in any society there must be the strongest possible guarantees of the right to peaceful assembly, the right to form and join trade unions, and the right to form political parties.  Yet the European Parliament recently approved proposals to be discussed at the Inter-governmental Conference later this year, to take powers to ban political parties, like Jörg Haider's Freedom Party in Austria. Please inform me how the European Union can consider banning any political party when to do so would be a fundamental breach of the proposed Article 17 of the proposed European Charter?  Will the Council of Ministers now drop any proposals to ban political parties in the European Union?