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"Mr President, I would very much just like to add to two particular points. Firstly, I would not wish to take up the philosophical issues of subsidiarity and the sovereignty of Member States, although I am very much in favour of having such a debate, for my regular viewing of British television programmes has shown me what the national politicians are conjuring up there in the way of threats posed by the continent to the home-grown legal system. Sometimes it is worthy of satire and merits discussion, but I digress.
The point I want to make relates to Mrs Theato’s report. I believe that as far as the judicial difficulties are concerned that we are facing here – and the European Union evidently has only very limited room for manoeuvre when it comes to making these offences litigable as European criminal offences – we have become embroiled in legalities. I am referring to Recommendations 1 and 2. After all, there is no longer mention of a European Public Prosecutor, rather, for legal reasons it has now become an independent, European authority, or “body” to quote Mrs Theato. We obviously have difficulties there with regard to the legal basis.
We also face difficulties with regard to offences. Nothing has changed there. As has always been the case, there are offences that transcend European offences, as it were, or at least there is the potential for them to do so, and these might include money-laundering, receiving stolen goods, and forming a criminal organisation. As far as that is concerned, I believe there are judicial uncertainties that need to be overcome. What Parliament needs to do as a matter of urgency though – and this is why we intend to vote for recital 1 without these recommendations – is to send out a clear political signal to the Commission and Council that we want to see a clear legislative act put an end to this disorderly state of affairs."@en1
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