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"Mr President, as with my previous explanation of vote, I have to say that in this case, too, I abstained from voting. I did so because although, on the one hand, I do recognise the necessity of cooperation and for a certain harmonisation of procedures for fighting crime, I am nevertheless of the opinion that it is the Member State which should have sole power to decide the provisions of criminal law in force in its territory.
The procedures and criminal codes in use in the European Union’s 27 Member States reflect differences between them, and there is nothing wrong with this. These differences find their origins in the different cultural, historical and practical contexts of what are, after all, the different countries which make up our Union. So I think that on this very difficult matter, which also involves serious ideological conflicts – because certain things are legal in some countries but not in others – we should respect these sensitivities, leave this matter to the Member States and concentrate on improving cooperation in the field of security under current procedures."@en1
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