Open letter to David Cameron and reply on subject from Oliver Letwin.
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DearXXXXXXXXXXM
Thank you for your further e-mail.
I am very glad to be able to tell you that, if a Conservative Government is elected at the next election, we will introduce legislation to ensure that a constitutional change of this sort cannot be introduced by a UK government without holding and winning a referendum on the subject.
However, if elected, we will not be putting any such proposal on prosecution before the British public because we see no reason whatsoever to make such a constitutional change.
Best wishes.
Yours
Oliver
Subject: Re: The solution.
Dear Oliver,
Thank you for your reply.
I am very pleased to see you do not approve of Britain having Corpus Juris, but can you tell me whether the Conservatives will pledge in their manifesto to veto the European Public Prosecutor, as the Lisbon Treaty allows us to do?
Yours,
Margaret.
Open letter to David Cameron
Marta Andreasen today challenged David Cameron to come clean about what he plans to do to defend British justice.
In an open letter addressed to the Tory leader, the UK Independence Party euro-MP asked if he would veto the proposed European Public Prosecutor, if elected Prime Minister.
This figure created by the ratified Lisbon Treaty, would with the new European Legal office 'EuroJust' be able to bring direct prosecutions in the UK, contrary to our legal traditions and clearly against the will of the British public. However to create the figure requires unanimity in the European Council of Ministers and therefore a British Government would have the power to stop it.
She asks,
"I write, therefore, to ask you if you will undertake now that the Conservative Party will include in its forthcoming manifesto for the 2010 General Election an unambiguous pledge to veto any proposal to establish a European Public Prosecutor's Office if you become Prime Minister at the forthcoming general election, whether as the head of a government with a majority in Parliament or as head of a minority coalition government?
If not, why not?"
"The public need to know whether they can trust the Tories to defend Britain's interests", she said.
Below is the full text of Marta Andreasen's Letter:
European Parliament
ASP 04F 152
Rue Wiertz 60
1047 Brussels
Belgium
David Cameron MP
House of Commons,
London, SW1A 0AA
4 February 2010
Dear Mr. Cameron,
Re: The European Public Prosecutor (EPP)
On 12th January 2010 I asked Commissioner-designate Algirdas Šemeta, during his confirmation hearings before the Budgetary Control Committee (of which I am a member), if he plans to establish the European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPP) as provided for in the Lisbon Treaty.
His response was that "we should move forward". He further confirmed that it is also being discussed by other members of the European Commission. This means that such a plan is already Commission policy and that it will be implemented regardless of who is confirmed in due course as Taxation and Anti-Fraud Commissioner. This reply, and the implications thereof, and the absence of any firm denial leave no doubt that European Commission and the Budgetary Control Commissioner intend to bring forward such a plan in the very near future and that planning is already well advanced.
As you know, Article 86 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU), provides for the possible establishment of the Office of European Public Prosecutor from EUROJUST. For such a proposal to become law, however, there must be unanimity in the Council: in other words, the United Kingdom retains a veto on the creation of an EPP. This requirement puts the United Kingdom in a very strong position to prevent the creation of such a post when it is presented to the Council.
The concept of a European Public Prosecutor is, I am sure, entirely repugnant to the British people. Furthermore, when it has been raised in the past, the UK government, recognising the hostility of Britons to it, has signified its clear dissent to the proposal.
It will create, for the first time, a criminal jurisdiction at the EU level.
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