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"Mr President, British Conservatives always abstain on Schengen issues because we are not members. Although we are disinterested, however, we are not uninterested in the future of the accord. There have been two great pillars of European integration in the decade and a bit that I have been serving here: the single currency and the free movement of peoples.
You do not need me to elaborate on the crisis in the former. As for Schengen and the border-free zone, we can see that, too, beginning to fall apart as Denmark unilaterally imposes border controls, as the Italian and French governments reject the core principle, as the Netherlands begins to talk of deporting Eastern European workers and so on.
Believe me when I say that no one in the United Kingdom can take any pleasure in the failure of these policies in countries which are our friends, our allies, our suppliers and our customers. It is in our interest to have a stable and prosperous union of countries on our border.
Therefore, more in hope than in expectation, let me offer the suggestion that, if you want to salvage something from European cooperation, it is better to work with the grain of democratic nation states than to try and impose centrally, by bureaucratic fiat, policies that harmonise and make uniform."@en1
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