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"Madam President, I was in the Committee on Justice and Home Affairs when I heard the news of the twin towers bombing. Our chairman then was Graham Watson, now of course the leader of the Liberals. He made a tasteless, but rather prescient, comment. He said that Osama Bin Laden had done more for European integration than anyone since Jacques Delors. Sadly, it was not to be his last ill-judged comment along these lines – but actually he was on to something.
Since that day, there has been a torrent of legislation which has been brought forward in the name of security or counter-terrorism, but which in fact owed much more to the long-held plans of financial integration. We have now had immense increases in state power, police power, surveillance and control of movements of capital, but I struggle to think of a single directive or regulation that has made less likely a future terrorist attack. What it has done was, of course, what it was intended to do right from the beginning, which was to have an integrated model of finance at European level as a prop to political integration."@en1
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