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"Mr President, I too rise to discuss the specific element of the exclusion of Gibraltar, which is an EU Member State. It is discriminatory, and I am afraid it is impossible to repress the suspicion that that arbitrary exclusion was made for reasons of national prejudice.
Look at it from the point of view of a Gibraltarian. When it comes to imposing the obligations of EU membership, particularly on banking secrecy and financial services, they are treated as a full Member State required to accept every dot and comma of the Treaties. But when it comes to pressing their rights as an EU member, for example to free movement and the ability to cross the border unhindered, suddenly a different standard applies.
A similar criticism, by the way, could be made on behalf of other Member States, not simply of the territory of Gibraltar. There is an arbitrary way in which rules are applied; there is no abstract rule of law but rather a political one in which the dots and commas of the Treaties are subordinated to political imperatives."@en1
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