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"Mr President, Denmark is not a party to the EU’s regulatory framework on asylum because, in June 1992, we exercised the people’s democratic right to reject a situation in which the EU would determine the Member States’ asylum regulations. It may perhaps serve to stimulate the debate if I state the three main lines of thought behind the Danish ‘no’. A few people here in this House, represented by Mr Camre of the Union for Europe of the Nations Group, said ‘no’ out of a paranoid fear that EU regulations would mean our little country being swamped by asylum seekers. Other MEPs, represented by Mrs Frahm from the Confederal Group of the European United Left/Nordic Green Left said ‘no’ for quite opposite reasons, specifically in order to secure the safety of asylum seekers in the best way possible. What now takes the edge right off the Danish ‘no’ is the unfortunate fact that xenophobia has in the meantime become the policy of the Danish Government. Fortunately, there is, however, a third and democratic ‘no’ which is not dependent on political trends. Sustainable in the long term, this particular ‘no’ is based on the attitude that problems which deeply affect local conditions should be solved in close cooperation with the local communities concerned and not be forced upon us by EU institutions that think they know better. The EU’s coercive centralism and mania for making rules quite simply contributes to creating the poisoned breeding ground for demagogues such as Mr Le Pen, Mr Haider and Mr Camre. Not that I fail to appreciate the social and economic conditions underlying this shift to the right and this xenophobia, but be in no doubt that the centralised imposition of rules – in which no account is taken of the attitude of the local community – is downright fatal and fosters right-wing extremism."@en1
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