Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-04-08-Speech-1-076"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-04-08"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Police and judicial cooperation in criminal matters2
dcterms:Language	"da"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20020408.6.1-076"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-04-08-Speech-1-0772
lpv:speaker	lp:Ole Krarup2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation to the EU-Slovenia Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3 member; Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Malta Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2002-06-30)3 unknown; Folkebevægelsen mod EU (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member_of_the_bureau; EDD (2001-12-11--2002-06-30)3 substitute; AFCO (2002-01-17--2002-06-30)3 member; Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market (2002-01-17--2002-09-04)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, this report is, of course, of little importance in the broad political scheme of things. From a financial point of view, we are concerned here with less than one per mille of the EU’s annual budget, and the direct political consequences are cause neither for approval nor contradiction. What is at issue here is a programme on the basis of Title VI of the Treaty on European Union. As a lawyer and democrat, I have to say that cooperation and development are always to be welcomed and that they can be useful and increase our awareness, but it is very difficult to take the rhetoric seriously. The report’s explanatory statement includes the following words: “If the European citizen is to be offered an area of freedom, security and justice, we have to ensure that criminal investigations, prosecution and the execution of penalties can take place efficiently across borders”. It is as if freedom, security and justice had not been invented until these decisions were made, but the fact is of course that by far the greater part of judicial criminal investigation and police work is done nationally and locally. What we have here is a rhetorical device that is part of, or to be seen as a stage in, the process towards unified decisions in the fields of policing, the law and criminal investigation. Where the funding is concerned, it may be pointed out that EUR 65 million is not to be sneezed at, and it is one more item in the long list of programmes interfering with the EU’s administrative procedure. I must not dwell any further upon this matter but just point out in conclusion what is so curious about the Commission’s statement that these programmes have been assessed. In that case, they were assessed in 2000, irrespective of the fact that the majority of the programmes were not adopted until 2001. That really is an impressive act of clairvoyance which bodes well for the projects."@en1

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