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I voted against the Oomen-Ruijten report which supports the Commission’s ambition to include, in the list of Community responsibilities in the area of environmental protection, the definition of the principle of criminal sanctions against offenders. As I said in yesterday’s debate, we must instead support the Danish Presidency’s wise initiative which urges Member States to impose stiffer penalties in this area. The initiative allows us to remain within an intergovernmental framework and this aspect of criminal law will remain one of the national responsibilities.
In fact, the Oomen-Ruitjen report and the Commission’s proposal that it supports demonstrate how, through a short-sighted approach, where each stage seems to be the natural consequence of the previous one, but where the whole picture is not taken into account, Europe is gradually sliding towards a model that seeks to make everything increasingly uniform.
In reality, no one desires the ultimate consequences of this model, in which the nations would cease to exist. In each specific matter and in each small step that we must take, however, the solution advocating uniformity is always put forward as the most rational. This is how practical Europe is gradually diverging from the Europe of intentions, making people more uneasy."@en1
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