Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-01-13-Speech-1-129"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-01-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Integrated management of the external borders2
dcterms:Language	"da"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030113.7.1-129"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-01-13-Speech-1-1302
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 member; EUL/NGL (2002-07-01--2003-02-23)3 unknown; Folkebevægelsen mod EU (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market (2002-09-09--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"As the Commission itself says, the topic in this case is integrated management of the Member States’ external borders. Even if the motion for a resolution in this report is adopted, moreover, it will, of course, in itself have no direct legal effects. Rather, the motion and the Commission’s communication will acquire significance in the light of a series of other decisions concerning the development of police cooperation. In this context, the proposal signifies a development that, in my view, is a threat to democratic control and the rule of law. This is a policy that would considerably weaken the national authorities in favour of the EU authorities. The unmistakeable ambition is to develop a supranational border police force in the longer term, one of several steps on the road towards an actual federal police force. This expansion of the police service is, at one and the same time, about unthinking EU integration and the securing of Fortress Europe. The latter is an obvious consequence of that outside pressure that is due to the prosperity of the EU countries as compared with the wretched social conditions endured by our neighbours, a contrast basically due to the EU countries’ policy, pursued for many years, of exploiting our neighbours. So much for the motion’s real background. The content of the motion is no less alarming. The common legislative body, the system of coordination and operational cooperation, the interoperational facilities and the permanent exchange of information and data, in short the overall development of the police service, does nothing less than dismember that rule of law which, on the basis of experience in the Nordic countries, I see democratic activists as having sought to establish over the years. What does the Commission have to say about democratic and judicial control? What we have is a non-binding and ill thought-out policy to the effect that control must be ensured. How? No answer. What does the report have to say? Not a word. EU border police and a common body for external borders? No thank you."@en1

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