Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-09-26-Speech-2-357"
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"en.20060926.28.2-357"2
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"Mr President, in this report we see another example of the so-called beneficial crisis which gives the European Union the opportunity to press forward with yet more political integration. There is indeed a problem. In London, the Metropolitan Police admit that most of the organised crime is now run by a variety of ethnic gangs, many of them from EU countries. This is quite apart from individual criminals who have come to Britain to pursue their professions.
The real problem lies with Britain’s open border policy and the right of EU citizens to unhindered entry to the UK, as well as the Government’s complete abdication of any control over who can and cannot come in from anywhere in the world. But the telling part of this report is the reference to the Tampere European Council which intends to force a European system of justice on the UK and the comment that ‘there is a long way to go until justice is procedurally, evidentially and substantially administered in a more or less similar way in all the Member States’.
Yes, indeed there is, and long may it remain so. Britain still has
the right to trial by jury and the presumption of innocence until proven guilty – and some of us in Britain intend, and want, that we should keep those safeguards. The UK Independence Party’s response to this report is ‘thanks, but no thanks’."@en1
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