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"I fear that the European Parliament has blundered by yielding to the dictates of so-called political correctness.
The Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering has made recommendations concerning ‘politically exposed persons’. It is natural to combat the misappropriation of funds, which is sometimes practised even at the highest levels of government in certain countries.
The European Union is duty-bound to implement these recommendations, but it must not go beyond that, lest it create other difficulties. As a matter of fact, I find the adopted definition of ‘politically exposed persons’ surprisingly loose. Defining them as natural persons with prominent public functions and their family members and even their close associates goes so far that it gives one cause to wonder who would not fit this description. Failing to distinguish between citizens of the European Union and non-citizens flies in the face of all the principles that underlie our Community law. A Member State of the Union cannot put other Member States on a par with non-EU countries.
The Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs has made the most appropriate proposal on this matter. I greatly regret that it has gone unheeded, because the war on money-laundering cannot be waged with a vague instrument that will only result in inefficiency and dissipation of effort.
For the reasons explained above, I voted against the Nassauer report."@en1
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