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"Mr President, if the EU needs to know whether the single market has been a success, it need only look at organised crime. The removal of international borders and visa-free travel make detection much less likely. The creation of a single currency could have been invented by money launderers – possibly it was. Of course, money laundering is not always obviously a cross-border activity.
The UK is full of micro and small businesses which deal with cash customers and survive only by divine providence. Indeed, the hand of God – or at least one of his alternatives – must be responsible, because the tiny number of customers they have could not sustain them. The products that they sell in limited quantities are varieties of fast food and taxi rides. The trafficked products and people that they sell on a grander and more profitable scale are the products and services that dare not speak their name.
Organised crime is a real problem, and this report has some merit. But it is being used to justify yet more EU centralisation and control, more harmonisation and, of course, use of the EU’s public prosecutor’s office."@en1
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