Seanad debates

Wednesday, 26 November 2003

Address by Mr. Joe McCartin, MEP.

 

We should seek to give Europe the competences needed to organise a better world which for me is most certainly a common defence foreign policy and good development co-operation. This has everything to do with foreign trade and fisheries, which are in a perilous state. There is no need for excessive interference and sometimes, for example, with the wildlife directive, I wonder whether we needed to go that far. In economic terms there are some issues where we should decide what competences attach to each level and thereby not turn off people. That said, I have seen Ministers come home and express horror at the details of some EU regulation for which they voted without reading it. Often there is a tendency to blame Europe for the unhappy details which sometimes turn up in legislation.

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