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"Mrs Cederschiöld’s report reflects an extremely peculiar form of logic. The EU introduces a common currency. The risk of counterfeiting increases. Counterfeiting of the euro is perceived as an offence against the entire EU; the punishment must therefore be the same in each Member State. The harmonisation of criminal law or the introduction of minimum legal standards should not be legitimised against the background of problems of one’s own creation but from considerations of reason and necessity. There is nothing to indicate that the Member States’ legal principles, legal traditions and carefully tailored legal systems should be lost for reasons to do with an already familiar offence such as counterfeiting. Nor, in the light of the international convention of 20 April 1929, can there be any confusion as to which country should deal with any criminal cases. We are therefore voting against the report and strongly urge the abandonment of the idea of harmonising criminal law on such flimsy grounds. Instead, the focus should be upon preventing the real problem."@en1
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