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"en.20010201.6.4-100"2
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"Denmark has a legal opt-out, meaning that we do not want to give the EU authority in the legal sphere. However, cross-border crime is a dramatically increasing problem, necessitating cooperation between the Member States. If I have chosen to vote in favour of this report and its recommendations but not in favour of paragraph 5 concerning a common Public Prosecutor’s Office for the EU, it is because we in Denmark have been afflicted in recent years by a large number of foreign criminals whom our old-fashioned judicial system and unduly lenient legislation are in no position to stop. We have never before seen such brutality, cynicism and contempt for human life as we are now seeing in connection with drug trafficking, trafficking in women, the smuggling of human beings, terrorism, money laundering and robbery of our country’s citizens. Since Denmark has the most indulgent legal system, criminals are flooding in on the principle of least resistance. The majority of our politicians do not want to look reality in the face and they try to make people believe that international conventions prevent us from protecting our peaceful and decent citizens. This EU initiative is necessary for giving an impetus to the recreation of law and order in Denmark. We are obliged to get together with our European partners and combine our efforts at a level which gives constitutional states more power than criminals."@en1
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