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"We are probably the only Members of this House who find the conclusions of the Brussels Summit unacceptable.
It is impossible for us to lend our support to the Lisbon strategy as a whole. If one strips away the strategy’s commendable goals, which include jobs, training and economic growth, and the way in which these goals have supposedly been achieved, namely by means of coordination, one is left with an instrument whose real purpose is to bring about a greater level of harmonisation of national economic and social policies. Its ultimate aim is to dismantle public services and downgrade our social welfare systems.
We are strongly opposed to an accelerated Europeanisation of immigration policies, the aim of the latter being merely to organise migratory flows so that Europe’s ageing populations are replenished. Europeanisation of this kind provides for even fewer internal border controls, without any guarantee that Europe’s external borders will be strengthened. Giving the Commission a right of initiative and Parliament the power of codecision on such matters while depriving the national parliaments of any power, albeit only that of control, and depriving the Member States of their right of veto is a sure way of ensuring that lax proposals are made even more lax by this House.
This is why we will vote against all the motions for resolutions tabled today."@en1
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