Posted on 07/09/2013 3:54:04 PM PDT by Olog-hai
The UK wants to repatriate 35 EU-wide police and justice laws out of some 130 in its wider efforts to claw back power from the EU.
We believe the UK should opt out of the measures in question for reasons of principle, policy, and pragmatism, UK home secretary Theresa May told ministers in London on Tuesday (9 July).
Tory right-wingers want to repatriate all 133 laws, but May said the UK should retain its cooperation with the EU police agency Europol and the EUs joint judicial authority Eurojust.
The European Arrest Warrant will also figure into UKs provisional opt-in list, but with added conditions to better protect British nationals of extradition to other member states in case of minor offenses.
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David Cameron desperate to look tough. haha
The whole EU needs to be scrapped.
Go UK, scrap ‘em all and pull out of the EU. After that, scrap that communistic metric system and go back to the old English measurement system. And while you’re at it, implement an immigration moratorium, Enoch Powell was right.
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