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"Mr President, I like to think that I have always been a champion of my South East constituents. One of the ways in which I try and champion their interests – as taxpayers – is by preventing the squandering of the money they have worked for on useless, inefficient or corrupt EU agencies.
That argument loses none of its force when the useless agency happens to be situated in my constituency, as is the case with the European Police College. I do not think there is any doubt about the mismanagement of its accounts. I do not think anyone in this House is arguing that, financially, it is a worthwhile or efficient organisation.
There is a wider issue of why we need a European police agency at all. A monopoly on the right of coercive force is perhaps the definitive attribute of statehood and states around the world have reached extremely sophisticated, extremely efficient accords on police collaboration without needing these EU agencies to tell them what to do.
We have worked very well without the EU in the county of Hampshire, where the EPC is situated. It predates most of the Member States and it will be fine with or without this EU agency sited on its territory."@en1
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