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"en.20140224.20.1-115-000"2
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"Mr President, on the one hand, it is good for once to be able to agree with the report in that it opposes the merging of the European Police College and Europol. On the other hand, UK Independence Party MEPs cannot vote for it because it calls for yet more powers to be given to Europol. This report wants to increase Europolʼs powers to participate in the investigative and judicial proceedings of Member States.
Europol is of course the European Union’s emerging cross-border police force – the United States of Europe’s own FBI – but there is no need for it, or to enlarge its powers. Bilateral agreements between nation states are a far cheaper and more effective way of achieving the desired results, and by these means nations can retain democratic control and accountability over their own police forces.
Existing mechanisms and Interpol already exist to provide cooperation between the police forces of nation states. Few people in Britain realise that Europol officers have immunity for anything that they do or say in the course of their duties. Such immunity is a concept unknown under English law, where it is a centuries-old principle that no one is above the law. We need genuine cooperation between nation states, police and judicial authorities. We do not need a European police force, leading eventually to a European police state."@en1
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