Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-09-20-Speech-4-021"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-09-20"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:External borders and Schengen2
dcterms:Language	"da"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20010920.3.4-021"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-09-20-Speech-4-0222
lpv:speaker	lp:Ole Krarup2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Malta Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member_of_the_bureau; EDD (1999-07-20--2001-12-10)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Slovenia Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-09-28--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Folkebevægelsen mod EU (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with South-east Europe (1999-09-28--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"The decision-making processes nowadays concerning the police, the military, criminal law, Schengen and border controls are reminiscent, if anything, of a kind of political bodysnatching. Today’s report on crossing external borders and the development of Schengen cooperation and yesterday’s proposal from the Commission are really two sides of the same coin. As a Danish professor of criminal law expressed it very clearly yesterday, the alarming thing is that ‘the EU Commission and other institutions are merely using the attacks in the United States as an opportunity to promote far-reaching harmonisation, and harmonisation means that the national traditions of criminal law, criminal procedure and police investigation are eliminated in favour of arrangements adopted in more or less of a panic that make controls more stringent and damage civic rights’. He also says: ‘Politicians feel they must demonstrate their power to take action, but there is no point at all in harmonising criminal legislation in the EU. That will not, in any case, reduce the number of terrorist acts by so much as one.’ That was the message. Today’s report will quickly be overtaken by events which take place long after the report has seen the light of day. The question underlying every political decision is that of whether we are thereby advancing our aims and, secondly, that of whether the means employed will compromise these aims. I am afraid that the answer to the first question is: ‘No, we shall not achieve the declared aims’, and that all experience goes to show that the answer to the second question, of whether the means will compromise the ends, is unfortunately ‘yes’. The controls will be harmful, and anyone who cares to read the Supervisory Board’s report for 1998-99 and subsequent statements on the lack of supervision of the Schengen authorities will acknowledge that I am right."@en1

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