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"Mr President, the great myth that lies behind this report, and so many others that we pass in this Chamber, is that without European integration there will be no collaboration among the Member States, and that is a false proposition. So in this specific field of collaboration in the field of criminal justice, you would think that before the European Union there was a completely atomised world where a series of autarchic countries did not talk to each other. We know that is not the case.
We had extremely sophisticated mechanisms in place to collaborate as sovereign democracies. We had the Hague Convention, we had Interpol, we have extradition rules, and we recognise the time spent in another country’s prison as part of one’s sentence. All these things were working well, and working globally rather than just regionally, before the European Union began to dip its toe into this field in the 1990s.
It does not follow that handing power to Brussels is the only way to guarantee collaboration among sovereign states; the alternative to a federal Europe is not anarchy but democratic cooperation for the achievement jointly of what cannot be achieved singly."@en1
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