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"Madam President, I accept that many domestic animals need registration, especially when moving long distances, and that it makes sense for data systems to be compatible if they are to be tracked through international borders. However, I do not accept – and will never accept – that this justifies centralisation or a vast new bureaucracy.
English is a wonderful language of vivid metaphor, and two phrases come to mind which perfectly describe what the EU does all the time. Firstly, using a sledgehammer to crack a nut. So often, massively over—engineered, highly technical solutions are produced to solve real problems, but ones which do not require monstrous bureaucratic apparatus backed by draconian laws and sentences, which are then enforced selectively – or perhaps not at all – in some Member States. Secondly, the thin end of the wedge, when the EU uses rational bureaucratic need to justify job creation and data recording to build what amounts to a major new edifice in the centralised EU governmental empire, with powers to match.
Quite simply, the cats and dogs and goldfish and stick insects may need tracking but, if they do, it should be a role for national governments. They should not become an issue for Eurocrats, and that is what you will make them."@en1
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