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"Mr President, we all know that the majority of people throughout Europe have long regarded the EU as a kind of Brussels-based bureaucratic behemoth – a behemoth in which decisions are made over people’s heads behind closed doors. In this respect, Denmark’s attempt to restrict the right of access to the files of the administrative and governmental apparatus in Brussels would undoubtedly have been a bitter setback to efforts to achieve greater transparency. Thankfully, it was given up at the eleventh hour.
Talking of renationalisation in connection with the reform of Schengen is, however, undoubtedly an exaggeration, because ultimately, it falls within the competence of the Member States, which, in the final event, have to answer to their citizens in this regard. We are therefore not talking about an anti-European decision by the Council Presidency; instead, in this case at least, the craze for centralisation emanating from Brussels has been halted for once. However, Turkey should never have been granted visa facilitation as a reward for failing to cooperate on combating illegal immigration.
When it comes to allowing the EU Member States to set their own financial policy, however, Copenhagen – which has always seen itself as building bridges between the euro and non-euro countries – has given in to the mania for centralisation and paved the way for a debt union. While the Danish Presidency was thereby more or less digging a debt trap for the net contributors, it was taking great care not to fall into it itself. That is probably why the referendum on closer ties between Denmark and the EU and the euro has been postponed.
Overall, it has to be said that all the efforts of the Danish Presidency towards sustainability will come to naught in a European debt union."@en1
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