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"Mr President, too often the European Union seems more concerned with finding a role for itself, with institutional self-preservation and driving forward political integration. It tries to do too much and ends up doing little or making things worse. In fact, many other problems – economic, political, security – are consequences of the EU’s own policies. We welcome the support of other governments and sensible Members of this House for the reforms sought by the British Prime Minister. The opportunity for change should be grasped enthusiastically.
MEPs should be the first to recognise that the citizens of our countries do not want ever closer union. They want national governments responsible to them for their actions. They want a European Union that costs less and which spends its resources more effectively. They want an EU that cuts red tape and removes barriers to trade and competitiveness and which moves rapidly to conclude free trade agreements with countries such as India and our transatlantic partners. They certainly do not want the whole nature of our countries changed by the massive uncontrolled influx of people from other cultures, and clearly our countries should be able to adjust their benefit systems as necessary and should be given greater flexibility in the scope and duration of suspending EU rules for public policy or national security reasons.
We should recognise how sensible David Cameron’s policy towards refugees has been, dealing with the problem at source, helping those in the refugee camps and accepting limited numbers of the most vulnerable. Perhaps the Commission should be looking at ways to reduce the pull factors and reviewing the limitations imposed by international laws such as the Refugee Convention and ECHR and, as Mr Weber said, most refugees do not come from Syria.
Terrorism is a separate matter from migration, although not entirely unrelated. We welcome the PNR agreement. This is an important breakthrough, but we still need to go further. Much of the cooperation that people want is best done between our national police and security agencies."@en1
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