Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-04-04-Speech-3-108"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-04-04"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Area of freedom, security and justice2
dcterms:Language	"da"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20010404.5.3-108"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-04-04-Speech-3-1092
lpv:speaker	lp:Ole Krarup2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; PETI (1999-10-08--2001-09-09)3,3 substitute; Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3,3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Malta Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3,3 member; Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3,3 member_of_the_bureau; EDD (1999-07-20--2001-12-10)3,3 member; Delegation to the EU-Slovenia Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-09-28--2002-01-14)3,3 unknown; Folkebevægelsen mod EU (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3,3 member; Delegation for relations with South-east Europe (1999-09-28--2002-01-14)3,3
lpv:translated text	"I have three remarks in connection with this question. First of all, a comment on the semantics. Both the Treaty and the question talk about introducing an ‘area of freedom, security and justice’. The impression might be created that freedom, security and justice did not exist in the Member States, as if our countries were a legal vacuum. However, that is not the case. The situation, of course, is that we have a wide range of very traditional and deeply rooted legal systems which are distinguished primarily by their extraordinary difference from one another. It is not going too far to say that the dominant system is one based upon Roman law but, in addition, there exist of course the common law system, which is significantly different, a Germanic and even a Scandinavian legal tradition, and these legal traditions differ from one another on crucial points. To introduce an area of freedom, security and justice is an absurdity from a semantic point of view. However, there is also, of course, another objective, and that brings me on to my second remark, which is of a legal nature. What we are concerned with here is the desire to establish a single area and to homogenise these legal areas in the EU style, nipping and tucking in the interests of a better fit and in such a way as to obtain one common criminal law and one common judicial area. Finally, I have a political remark to make. This empire building through the establishment of a legal system represents one of the most repressive systems of oppression in world history. What has been established in the light of these words, ‘freedom, security and justice’, is a system of monitoring and control without parallel in world history. A system is being developed which suspends the crucial aspects of legal security. Objection can also be made to this perversion of the language which should ideally, of course, reflect reality as carefully as possible. That is something it is nowhere near doing."@en1

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