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"Ever since the Edinburgh summit in 1992, the architects of the EU have been cultivating the view that European citizenship is not a substitute for national citizenship, but, on the contrary, that it supplements and broadens national citizenship by creating ‘EU rights’. That is a distortion of the truth.
In the same breath as citizens’ rights are defined as ‘European rights’, taking precedence over rights based on national legislation, in precisely the same breath, national citizenship is undermined. European citizenship is purely and simply integration through the back door. This political pickpocketing is at once antidemocratic and repressive. What is being proposed is the absorption of vital parts of countries’ legal systems, including criminal law and the police, into European citizenship. The belief seems to be that these genuine values – democracy and the rule of law – can be acquired for the DKK 2 000 million which the Commission has just allocated to strengthen the legitimacy of the European institutions.
'There is something rotten' – not in Denmark, but in the European Union. It is obvious that third-country nationals should have the same rights as Member States’ nationals, but we do not need this measure to make the fact clear."@en1
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