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"Mr President, I voted against this motion, which I am delighted to say the UK Government also opposes. I think the arguments we have heard in favour of it are fundamentally flawed: they boil down to the idea that since cars cross borders we must therefore have a common EU policy, which is the same logic we hear over and over again.
This might – I am not sure – be construed as an argument for global government. But it certainly is not an argument for a narrow harmonisation of policies under this particular institutional structure with 28 of the 196 independent states and territories represented at the UN.
The myth is that if you do not have Commission involvement you do not get cooperation. It is not true. We have had decades of judicial cooperation: the Hague Convention, extradition treaties recognising time spent in another country’s prison as part of a sentence, etc. It is perfectly possible for two countries if there is a pragmatic case for it, as we just heard suggested by Comrade Carthy a second ago. There is a perfectly good mechanism whereby two sovereign governments come together and reach a bilateral deal. It does not follow that we have to hand the whole thing to an unelected bureaucracy in Brussels."@en1
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