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"I am sorry, Commissioner, but I remain unconvinced, as do many other people. I believe that the fundamental problem relates to the project of European integration itself. Your speech to us may be seen by many people — and this is what worries me most — as a kind of learned European despotism. That would do a great disservice to the European project and above all to those of us who are true Europeanists in this context. The issue of the Regulation that we are discussing at the moment is not just important because it hinders people travelling from airports, and the security service that has to ensure that it is applied, but also, essentially, because it has been drawn up by means of mechanisms — and I would insist on this point — whose legitimacy is dubious from a democratic point of view. In this context, I am still not very sure what the fundamental justifications for this legislation are, I still do not understand how the Commission can justify this violation of the democratic principle of making laws public, and I still do not see how the Commission expects to be able to convince the European citizens that this kind of rule is better for European democracy."@en1

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