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"Mr President, this report is a fantastic example of blinkered policy. The fact is that, as such, the report reels off a list of the serious problems that we have with international crime in the EU – the mafia, the trafficking of women, drugs trafficking, arms smuggling, and so on – but says not one word about what everyone outside these walls is talking about, which is border controls. The most disastrous thing, perhaps the most disastrous decision that the EU has made over the last number of years, was to prohibit Member States from controlling their own borders. We do indeed have a free internal market for goods and capital, services, and so on, but our citizens were never asked whether they also wanted an internal market in international crime. I find it striking that, at a time when Germany is carrying out checks on its border with Poland, when the whole of the French presidential elections hinged on border controls, when Sweden has border controls, when, last year, Commission representatives descended on Denmark because we wanted to have border controls, that at such a time, Parliament is capable of adopting a report on international crime that contains not one word about this. It is scandalous!"@en1
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