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"Mr President, my group has a lot of sympathy for ensuring that the efforts to combat fraud, corruption and money laundering are more efficient, and we find it completely unacceptable that cross-border crime is increasing alarmingly and that the money which the Member States’ tax payers hand over to the EU is administered so badly and is to such a large extent channelled away from the purposes for which it was intended. If we are nonetheless to vote against this report, it is because we do not believe in the effectiveness of the resources proposed by the report for combating fraud and crime. Despite our having every possible sympathy for the rapporteur, Mrs Theato, and for her sterling efforts, we are opposed to establishing an independent European prosecution authority because it is a staging post towards the federal Europe we oppose.
It is the very establishment of a form of economic administration at EU level that creates the problems, because those models for redistributing EU taxpayers’ money which have been established by the so-called ‘Community’ are poorly designed and in many cases quite unwished for. The less money there is in the EU’s coffers, the less fraud there is. In her speech at the meeting last month of the justice ministers of Germany’s constituent States, Mrs Theato expressly said that the open frontiers facilitate criminal activities. I agree. The Schengen Agreement is a catastrophe for probity, but who has created Schengen? The EU has done so. We do not believe that more solutions at Community level can improve the fight against crime because the efforts will be characterised by just as much indifference, slovenliness and secrecy as the EU’s administration in general. We can clearly see from the treatment of recent years’ auditors’ reports that powerful forces here in Parliament too are busier preventing the clearing up of fraud than in prosecuting the people responsible. We welcome negotiations between the Member States concerning uniform legislation in the area of crime, but we shall not submit our countries to a federal EU prosecution authority."@en1
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