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"Mr President, this report invokes democracy and the rule of law. The report’s nicely polished exterior is, however, a legal ‘Potemkin facade’. Firstly, the whole project of establishing an area of freedom, security and justice is, first and foremost, a device for bringing about a federal EU. It is that outcome, and not a concern for justice, that gives the project impetus here in Parliament. Federalism in conjunction with supranational power means, however, a weakening of the legal systems that have their democratic basis in the Member States. Secondly, the report overlooks the threats to the rule of law presented by the construction in recent years of huge police and monitoring systems – Schengen, Europol etc – which cannot be monitored and of which it is impossible to take an overall view. There lies the real threat to the state governed by law. There is nothing in the report about this.
In short, the report fails to restore the balance between security imperatives and respect for human rights, in favour of the latter. That is a quotation from one of, in all, eleven amendments by the Confederal Group of the European United Left/Nordic Green Left which, together, serve to remedy the report’s striking deficiencies in one practical field, namely respect for immigrants and asylum seekers."@en1
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